中國同性婚姻維權(quán)案被法院駁回

A landmark same sex marriage case was dismissed today by a judge in central China, but gay activists praised the suit for raising awareness of the issue in a country where homosexuals still face considerable social disapproval.

中國華中地區(qū)一家法院周三駁回了一起具有里程碑意義的同性婚姻案，但同性戀活動(dòng)人士稱贊這起訴訟在中國提高了人們對(duì)這個(gè)問題的意識(shí)，同性戀在中國仍面臨很大程度的社會(huì)不認(rèn)同。

The case, believed to be China’s first test of the right of homosexuals to marry, was thrown out after only a short hearing when the court found that Chinese law requires that only a man and a woman may marry, writes the FT’s Patti Waldmeir.

本案被認(rèn)為是中國有關(guān)同性婚姻權(quán)利的首次嘗試。法庭在經(jīng)過時(shí)間不長的庭審后駁回原告請(qǐng)求，認(rèn)為中國法律規(guī)定一男一女才能結(jié)婚。

The plantiffs had claimed that the law allowed “a husband and a wife” to marry but did not specify their gender. Gay activists were not expecting the case to have much chance ofsucceeding.

此前兩名原告的主張是中國《婚姻法》的原文是中國實(shí)行“一夫一妻”的婚姻制度，而并未具體規(guī)定性別。同性戀活動(dòng)人士本來就不預(yù)期本案會(huì)有多少勝算。

Sun Wenlin, a 27-year-old employee of an internet firm, asked the court to overrule a local authority which denied him the right to marry his partner, a 37-year-old security guard hemet online. In China, many gays enter into opposite sex marriages to satisfy family and to have children. But same sex marriage is illegal.

27歲的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司雇員孫文林請(qǐng)求法院推翻當(dāng)?shù)孛裾志芙^為他和他在網(wǎng)上結(jié)識(shí)的伴侶、一名37歲的保安辦理結(jié)婚登記手續(xù)的決定。在中國，很多同性戀者為滿足家人意愿而選擇異性婚姻和生育子女。同性婚姻是不合法的。