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marriage equality

marriage equality noun: equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.

Noun

marriage equality (uncountable)

  1. Equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
    • Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children. “Marriage equality would not only overturn the natural order, but it would also shake the very...2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts Media Limited, retrieved 03 Dec 2021
    • […] said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts.2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, page 139

Antonyms of marriage equality

Questions about marriage equality

What does marriage equality mean?
Marriage equality means equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
What part of speech is marriage equality?
Marriage equality is a noun.

Words near marriage equality in the dictionary

  1. marriage counsellors
  2. marriage counselor
  3. marriage counselors
  4. marriage encounter
  5. marriage encounters
  6. marriage equality
  7. marriage finger
  8. marriage fingers
  9. marriage guidance
  10. marriage inequality
  11. marriage licence

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