Hong Kong's top court orders government to recognize overseas same-sex marriage in landmark case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Currently, Hong Kong only recognizes same-sex marriage for select purposes including taxation, civil service benefits and dependent visas.
55% : Most of these concessions were recently adopted as Hong Kong, which officially operates as a special administrative state under Chinese rule, has seen a growing social acceptance of same-sex marriage.
49% :Hong Kong's government will have to set up a new legal framework to recognize same-sex marriage registered overseas, its top court ruled Tuesday, ending a five-year legal battle.
43% : Same-sex couples in Hong Kong need "access to an alternative legal framework in order to meet basic social requirements," Justice Patrick Keane wrote in a decision also signed by Chief Justice Andrew Cheung, and Justices Roberto Ribeiro, Joseph Fok, and Johnson Lam.
41% : Sham has repeatedly requested a judicial review of Hong Kong's laws pertaining to same-sex marriage, most of which have failed.
37% : In 2018, he began arguing Hong Kong's refusal to accept same-sex marriage legitimized by a foreign government was in violation of the constitutional right to equality.

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