This is what I have learned during our referendums following the constitutional court ruling on marriage equality, is that it all depends on how you frame the division. If you frame it as a right for homosexuals to marry and have a family, then you reinforce existing lines. But if you frame it so that it doesn’t touch the kinship relationship that the Confucian believe in people so dearly public, then you can say, No, they don’t form extended families; it’s just a set of rights and responsibilities that two individuals have.

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