The two young men met through an online chat group. They began seeing each other every day. Long walks in the park. Movies and barhopping. Dinner with grandparents.... On their first anniversary, in June, the men, Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang, tried to register to marry at a local civil affairs bureau in this southern provincial capital. An employee refused, saying Chinese law did not permit same-sex marriage. The couple did the unthinkable — they sued the civil affairs bureau.
The district court accepted two gay couple's case, the first time a Chinese court had agreed to hear a lawsuit on same-sex marriage. Sun Wenbin and Hu Mingliang, the couple who tried to register to marry at a local civil affairs bureau, sued the civil affairs bureau because an employee refused to register them saying that Chinese law did not permit same-sex marriage.Some Chinese news organizations have reported on the case, including the English-language edition of Global times, a prominent state-run publication.
This article relates to class because we talked about the two parties side about same-sex marriage. The Dominicans said that marriage is a human right and should not be restricted by sexual orientation or gender identity. While the Republicans said that marriage is defined as a union between man and woman.
The only person who is bias in this article is the civil affairs bureau because they refused to register the gay couple to be married.