ABS-CBN News
Date: Nov 30 2018
By: Agence France-Presse
TAIPEI – Taiwan will enact a separate law for same-sex unions after conservative groups won a recent referendum battle, the premier said, as LGBT activists Friday urged the government to abide by a landmark ruling to offer equal marriage rights.
Gay rights campaigners want the existing marriage law to be amended and have said separate regulations would make them second-class citizens.
But conservative groups argue that gay marriages should not come under the current Civil Code, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
Taiwan’s top court last year voted to legalize gay marriage, the first place in Asia to do so. It ruled that the change should be implemented in two years but did not specify how it wanted gay marriage to be brought in. [FULL STORY]