Why do we need to legalize same sex marriage?

Why do we need to legalize same sex marriage?

Allowing same-sex marriage would enable gays and lesbians in the Philippines to marry the person they love and would strengthen everyone's rights. From a human rights perspective, broadening civil marriage to couples of the same sex demonstrates respect for the fundamental rights of equality and nondiscrimination.

Who proposed same sex marriage?

June 17, 2003. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announces legislation to make same-sex marriages legal, while at the same time permitting churches and other religious groups to "sanctify marriage as they see it." It means Ottawa will not appeal two provincial court rulings allowing same-sex unions.

Is same sex marriage unconstitutional?

On June 26, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell that state laws banning same-sex marriage violate the Fourteenth Amendment, rendering such laws unconstitutional and invalidating the remaining 14 same-sex marriage bans still being fully or partially enforced.