2023-11-30 10:14:00
A survey conducted by the US think tank PuryResearch Center found that 53 percent of people in India are in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. A new survey says that 43 percent of people are against such marriages. Same-sex marriages have not been legalized in India yet. In October, the Supreme Court declared that it had no power to relax the Special Marriage Act — a secular law governing inter-faith marriages.
A five-member bench headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice DY Chandrachud has left it to Parliament to legislate for approval of such ties. The existing legal framework in the country does not support such marriages. Public debate on same-sex marriage is active in 32 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. The PureSearch Center Survey was conducted in India between March and May this year.
Pew Survey. According to the report, of the 32 countries surveyed, support for same-sex marriage was found to be strongest in Sweden, where 92 percent of respondents favored such marriages, while Nigeria had the lowest support, with only two percent of respondents in favor. Same-sex marriage also gained support in other major Western European countries, with 89 percent in the Netherlands, 87 percent in Spain, 82 percent in France and 80 percent in Germany.
In Asia, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong (a special administrative region of China), Cambodia, , Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Sri — 49 percent of the 12 countries surveyed by Pew supported same-sex marriage. Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia. Across these, an average of 43 percent of respondents opposed same-sex marriage, with the greatest opposition found in Indonesia (92 percent), Malaysia (82 percent), and Sri Lanka (69 percent). Among Asian countries, Japan had the highest popular support for same-sex marriage in Asia. Seven in ten (68 percent) say they favor legalizing gay marriage, while only 26 percent oppose it. Vietnam (65 percent), Thailand (60 percent) and Hong Kong (58 percent) are the other three countries where nearly six in ten respondents favor same-sex marriage. All three countries do not legally recognize same-sex marriage.
However, in Hong Kong, a court recently ruled that same-sex couples have equal inheritance rights, according to the survey. In Taiwan, where same-sex marriage is legal, opinions differ on the issue. Here, 45 percent of respondents supported same-sex marriage, while 43 percent opposed it. In South Korea, 56 percent opposed same-sex marriage, while only 41 percent supported it. In Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia, at least six in ten respondents strongly opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage. In Malaysia, three-quarters (75 percent) of respondents strongly opposed same-sex marriage, while in Europe and the United States, the survey found that people in Western Europe were staunch supporters of same-sex marriage.
The divide is also strong in Central Europe. In Poland, 41 percent of adults supported legalizing same-sex marriage, while in Hungary only 31 percent did. Italy and Greece are the two European countries where same-sex marriage is not legal. There is strong support for same-sex marriage in North America. In Canada, 79 percent supported it, while in the US and Mexico, 63 percent of the public supported it.
The four countries surveyed in Africa and the Middle East (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Israel) were generally against same-sex marriage. In South Africa, where same-sex marriage is legal, only 38 percent were in favor. Nigeria (two percent) and Kenya (nine percent) were found to be against same-sex marriage. In Israel, the survey found that only 36 percent of respondents were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, while 56 percent were opposed.
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Survey reveals that 53 percent of people in India are in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage
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