Meanings
- uncountableEquality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
[…] said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts.
2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, page 1391 more example
Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children. “Marriage equality would not only overturn the natural order, but it would also shake the very foundation of society and humanity,” read the ruling.
2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts Media Limited, retrieved 03 Dec 2021Antonyms: marriage inequality
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEquality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.
Translations
Dutch huwelijksgelijkheid
- huwelijksgelijkheidacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
Esperanto edzeca egaleco
- edzeca egalecoacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
French mariage pour tous
- mariage pour tousacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
German Ehe für alle
- Ehe für alleacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
Irish comhionannas pósta
- comhionannas póstaacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
Japanese 婚姻の平等, 結婚の平等
- 婚姻の平等 (kon'in no byōdō)acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
- 結婚の平等 (kekkon no byōdō)acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
Polish równość małżeńska
- równość małżeńskaacceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage
Cite this entry
marriage equality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriage%20equality
“marriage equality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriage%20equality. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “marriage equality,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriage%20equality.
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