Maurice's barbaric YAWP

歐洲人權法院就性別登記變更要件之判決評析

張宏誠

2017.04.07

分手前，不要告訴我你的名字
或許下一次見面
我們還能像第一次認識般
問著對方的名字
說很高興認識你
還可以一見鍾情
等待下一次相愛
像花謝了還會再開

Searching For A Simple Word: Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Hears the Case of Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples in March

Hong-Cheng Chang（張宏誠）

For the very first time in Asia, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court (“the Grand Justices of the Judicial Yuan”) announced yesterday that it is going to hear the oral arguments in the two joined cases on marriage equality for same-sex couples, scheduled in the end of March. There are four questions before the bench: 1) Are same-sex couples allowed to get married under the current law?; 2) If not, is the current law unconstitutional on ground of infringing the Right to Marry under Article 22 of the Constitution?; 3) Alternatively, is the current law contrary to Equal Protection under Article 7 of the Constitution?; and 4) Are institutions other than marriage, for example same-sex partnership, adequate to protect rights of same-sex couples, in a manner consistent with the constitutional provisions on equal protection and the right to marry? The Court is obligated to deliver its ruling (“the Constitutional Interpretation”) within two months after the conclusion of oral pleadings. In that case that the current law is found unconstitutional by the Court, by May 2017, Taiwan will probably become the first country in Asia that provides a legal means in protecting the equal right to marry of same-sex couples.

像小孩穿著大人鞋子走路
我的雙腳深陷在
你的軍靴

臺灣科技大學人文社會學科通識課程

「性別與法律：性與身體專題研究」

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