Gay marriage abroad

whydoibother

Just wondering what happens if a plane lands as an emergency procedure in a country that does not support gay marriage, what happens to gay people who are married… would they be arrested and killed?

Peregrinus

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Only if the country has a law that says that having gone through a same-sex marriage ceremony anywhere in the world is a crime in that country, and that the penalty is death.

I'm pretty sure no country in the world has such a law.

If the law of a particular country doesn't recognise gay marriage, the penalty in that country is that your same-sex marriage isn't recognised; you are treated as unmarried. Not many countries arrest and kill people for being unmarried.

ghostfacekilla

Unless your sucking the ear off him, you'll be fine.

Grayson

I don't think it's a crime anywhere in the world to be married to a person of the same sex. It is a crime to have gay sex. So as long as they don't have sex, they should be fine.

Montage of Feck

What like Northern Ireland?

RobbingBandit

Marriage is Marriage when on holiday hide them rings

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058312624/gay-marriage-abroad

Realistically, after the plane has conducted a difficult emergency landing, the top priority for authorities in the host country is to quarantine all passengers to identify which passengers are gay -- even worse, which passengers are both married and gay -- and to turn them over for disciplinary hearings the following day. Once those gay people are cleared to remain in the country, they go to a gay bar with the authorities, who turned out to be closet gays all along.

Unrealistically -- to answer your question another way -- nothing would happen because being married is not a crime in any country in the world.

Ten of Swords

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