ABSTRACT
This paper examines the factors influencing same-sex
marriage in Taiwan. The data used is from the 2015 Survey Research on Attitudes
toward the Death Penalty and Related Values in Taiwan, which focused on
knowledge, attitudes toward the death penalty, and the concepts of social,
political, and law values. The sample ages are from 21 to 94. The method used
is probit modelling for examining the influences on same-sex marriage issues in
Taiwan. The main empirical results find that older people, men, aboriginal
people, persons with medium educational attainment, people with higher income,
Christian and Catholic, those who agree with killing stray cats or dogs,
agreeing with the concept of people over freedom, and over human rights are
less likely to have tolerant views of same-sex marriage behaviours. In
contrast, people agreeing with the values of divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and
men who favour military human rights are more likely to accept same-sex
marriage in their comprehensive lives. Taiwan is no longer under martial law
and has a multi-party system of democratic governance; the current ruling party
may support gay rights and need to draft the law of same-sex marriage in the
near future.