MAC mulls same-sex marriage for Chinese
By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) is exploring legal options to allow Taiwanese to marry their Chinese same-sex partners.
The comments on Thursday came after the Judicial Yuan last week said that it aims to amend regulations on same-sex marriages, opening them for Taiwanese and their spouses from countries that do not recognize same-sex marriage.
This would also apply to spouses from Hong Kong and Macau, but not China, the Executive Yuan said.
MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said that the Council of Grand Justices’ Interpretation No. 748, the basis for same-sex marriage in Taiwan, does not allow for the exclusion of Chinese spouses.