{"id":83499,"date":"2024-06-27T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/passed-law-on-same-sex-marriage-a-monumental-step-in-the-right-direction\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:45:56","slug":"passed-law-on-same-sex-marriage-a-monumental-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/passed-law-on-same-sex-marriage-a-monumental-step-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Passed law on same-sex marriage: &#8211; A monumental step in the right direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Rainbow flags flew in the air and bouquets of flowers were handed out after the law was passed in the National Assembly.  &#8211; The law represents a monumental step in the right direction for LGBTQ rights in Thailand, Panyaphon Phiphatkhunarnon, founder of the Love Foundation, told CNN.  The upper house of Thailand&#8217;s National Assembly voted on Tuesday 18 June on the bill that will make same-sex marriage legal.  Of the representatives, 130 voted for and only 4 voted against the proposal.  The law will thus be forwarded for the signature of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, which is considered a mere formality, and will then come into force after 120 days.  This will make Thailand the third country in the Asian region to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal.  The amendment will give same-sex couples the right to adoption and inheritance.  The country will also change the references to &#8220;men&#8221;, &#8220;women&#8221;, &#8220;husbands&#8221; and &#8220;wives&#8221; to gender-neutral terms.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/verdensbestenyheter.no\/nyheter\/vedtok-lov-om-likekjonnet-ekteskap-et-monumentalt-skritt-i-riktig-retning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-70 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow flags flew in the air and bouquets of flowers were handed out after the law was passed in the National Assembly. &#8211; The law represents a monumental step in the right direction for LGBTQ rights in Thailand, Panyaphon Phiphatkhunarnon, founder of the Love Foundation, told CNN. The upper house of Thailand&#8217;s National Assembly voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4236,375,214,20793,3065,9972,1276],"class_list":["post-83499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-direction","tag-law","tag-marriage","tag-monumental","tag-passed","tag-samesex","tag-step"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}