For example, we are is still the only country in Asia to have legalized marriage equality. We managed to avoid alienating half of the population either way, but rather finding a creative solution through civic participation and referenda and so on, so that same-sex people marry as individuals, as the bylaws, but not the in-laws, not the father-in-law, mother-in-law, so they don’t form kinship, familial lineage relationships.

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