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Ha..Christians carry so much bad karma from so many centuries of control and domination...so I understand their ignorance...but Buddhists involvement surprises me. Where did their kindness and compassion go ?

Good for them. Can they explain what the values of family are? Then how they would be destroyed?

Freedom of speech is a good thing. Never fear it.

If family values means the same thing in Taiwan as it does here in the states, it's a euphemism for homophobia. Bigotry by any other name is still bigotry.

@2: unfortunately there may be less than meets the eye with Buddhists. They are still an established religion with a clergy, dogma, a sense of territory... Look at their attitude in Myanmar against Muslims (the Rohingyas, but also the riots and violence near Mandalay 3 years ago).

I support Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBT) Hotline Association and other civic initiatives for legislation of same-sex marriage. It is also good to read that a musical attention in a concert will be held, it is often music which will support subliminal understandings of essence of human beings and cultures. Because it is true sound to be heard, which is universal.

AS response what i think about the protest against same-sex marriage, confucianistic cultures still continues in many families, which values having children as a ultimate goal for prosperity, not the individual stance of human beingness! If you want to help confucinistic families to overcome their objections, only human individual values should be compassed along the confucianistic realm. That must be an integer way to deal with it, from individual perspective..so confucianistic behavior in contemporary individual holding stance of one's self. A new and lively approach.

As response from the objection from a Buddhistic group against same-sex-marriage, I can attend you to the disynchronisation of buddhahood, proclaiming with any connection to other human being, since Buddhism practice, is just a long way of detachments. In my opinion we deal here with a buddhistic dispragma, say it a fashionable buddhistic group just fashioning protest. Never should any individual Buddhist deal with other one's social connections in life..a real Buddha hood is a taoistic personal path.

if these thousands want to keep their values of the family then Gay marriage will not effect their value, they just live side by side.

See, these thousand energy, why government did not order them to cleaning streets, serving people getting sick in hospital , charity activities, or to enhance productivity to 100% fold, etc?

just order them at the time of them making protest. That was gold momentum to show that they are correct people.

Gay marriage should be trigger issue for those who protest to do more value. that should be boomerang trick for them.

hey drelin,
tell me about your sense of territory and dogma
Look history that your ancestor probably making riots and violence