Why is Thailand so late to approve gay marriage bill?

[Goodboybkk]

Why is Thailand so late to approve gay/lesbian marriage bill?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-same-sex-marriage-could-become-legal-in-india/2023/01/24/3dbb0f4a-9bcd-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html

https://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-officially-recognizes-same-sex-235042636.html

Thanks

[orchis]

 

[Emeraldisle]

Thai government probably can't see how to make any money out of it

[HuskerDo2]

Culture possibly.

 

Maybe they don't deem it a priority.

 

Maybe they don't agree with it.

 

Maybe because they are slow on everything. 

[TeacherJane]

Support for gay marriage is mostly a Western thing, if you look on the map. So the arguments in favor have a cultural basis, and do not apply strongly, to Thailand. Where marriage is seen as between a man and a woman, to produce children. In Western societies, social obligation on marriage is rownplayed, and even heterosexual marriage is a lifestyle choice.

[orchis]

getting there.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-edges-closer-legalising-same-sex-marriage-2023-12-21/

[mfd101]

Thai culture loves complexity and ambiguity ie lots of wriggle room. So why clarify things?

[brianthainess]

Probably trying to figure out how they can stop Nasty dirty smelly Falang from getting a Marriage extension.  Tic.