‘STRANGE’: An academic who received a copy questioned whether the certificates for heterosexual couples would be labeled with ‘heterosexual marriage certificate’
Taipei Times
Date: May 24, 2019
By: Lee Hsin-fang and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of the Interior yesterday revised its same-sex marriage certificate after the
A specimen copy of an updated marriage certificate, produced by the Ministry of the Interior and with the term “same-sex” removed, is pictured yesterday.
Photo: Chen Ching-min, Taipei Times
initial version was criticized as discriminatory.
The Enforcement Act of Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 748 (司法院釋字第748號解釋施行法) is to go into effect today and with it same-sex couples will be able to legally register their marriages.
However, the first version of the marriage certificate released by the Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday was titled “same-sex marriage certificate.”
Critics called the inclusion of term “same-sex” in the document discriminatory.
National Sun Yat-sen University sociology department chairman Wang Hong-zen (王宏仁) wrote on Facebook that a household registration office had mailed him a ministry version of the marriage certificate that emphasized the same-sex nature of the marriage. [FULL STORY]
