[image] Switzerland votes to make same-sex marriage legal by near two-thirds majority Switzerland agreed to legalize civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex couples by a nearly two-thirds majority in a referendum on Sunday, making it one of the last countries in Weste…

Huh? Only now? I thought they would have legalized it over a decade ago….

Good for Switzerland! Since marriage is a social contract, referendum is the way to decide.

[image] DrewC: Huh? Only now? I thought they would have legalized it over a decade ago…. Maybe they didn’t want to take a side in the pro-/anti-same-sex debate?

Switzerland is pretty conservative. They only gave the vote to women in 1971; one canton forbade women voting on local issues and had to be overruled by the Swiss Supreme Court… in 1991.

It’s quite embarrassing to legalise it so late.

[image] Gain: It’s quite embarrassing to legalise it so late. no need for embarrassment, not everyone is as open-minded as canadians :wink: but they get there eventually… [greens]

[image] TT: no need for embarrassment, not everyone is as open-minded as canadians :wink: Actually yes. Switzerland is incredibly rich and has a tolerant drug policy and allows assisted suicide. To legalise gay marriage later than all its peers is a disgrace.

[image] Gain: It’s quite embarrassing to legalise it so late. For a European country, certainly. For an African or Asian country, a cause for celebration. I’m surprised Japan and Thailand haven’t legalized it yet.

Why? Japan is conservative af and Thailand is fake tolerant. The only country that might legalise gay marriage in Asia after Taiwan in the foreseeable future is no country.

Switzerland votes to make same-sex marriage legal by near two-thirds majority

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