marriage equality en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children. “Marriage equality would not only overturn the natural order, but it would also shake the very foundation of society and humanity,” read the ruling.
2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts Media Limited, retrieved 03 Dec 2021:[…] said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts.
2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, page 139:
Antonyms
Relateds
same-sex marriage · marriage · gay marriage
Translations (9)
pl równość małżeńska (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · nl huwelijksgelijkheid (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · fr mariage pour tous (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · ja 婚姻の平等 (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · ga comhionannas pósta (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · ka ქორწინების თანასწორობა (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · de Ehe für alle (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · eo edzeca egaleco (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage) · ja 結婚の平等 (acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage)