Discussing Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in China
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Discussing Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in China It is a long-established belief all around the world that marriage is a legally accepted relationship only between man and woman as husband and wife. However, such a widely held belief has been challenged greatly in recent decades by the unprecedented public awareness of the existence of homosexuality. More and more homosexuals have begun to ask and fight for equal marital rights as heterosexuals. In China, where the homosexuality has just been officially admitted as non-pathological three years ago, the voice of legalizing homosexual marriage has also been widely heard but probably not as loudly as in western countries. This essay will try to give a general overview of the discussion about legalizing homosexual marriage in China and will first briefly introduce the history of homosexuality in China, and then evaluate the issue on both sides. Homosexuality is a term coined by a Hungarian doctor, Karl...

