marriage equality

English

Noun

marriage equality (uncountable)

1. Equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
   • 2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, page 139:

     […] said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts.

Antonyms

• marriage inequality

Translations

acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage

• Esperanto: edzeca egaleco
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• Irish: comhionannas pósta m
• Japanese: 婚姻の平等 (kon'in no byōdō), 結婚の平等 (kekkon no byōdō)

See also

• same-sex marriage, gay marriage
• straight marriage
• marriage