South Korean Christian groups in massive protest against rights for same-sex couples 

SEOUL — 

Hundreds of thousands of members of South Korea's Christian groups held a work successful Seoul connected Sunday to protestation against a landmark tribunal ruling that acknowledged same-sex the rights of partners successful same-sex couples to authorities wellness insurance.

The ultimate tribunal successful July upheld a precocious tribunal ruling that a same-sex spouse was eligible for spousal benefits from the National Health Insurance Service, a determination hailed arsenic a triumph for LGBTQ rights successful a state that has lagged others successful the region.

Sunday's monolithic work drew hundreds of thousands of Christians from crossed the country, disrupting postulation connected respective large roads successful cardinal Seoul.

As galore arsenic 230,000 radical attended, the Yonhap quality bureau reported, citing police, The organisers, meanwhile, said arsenic galore arsenic 1.1 cardinal radical took part. Calls to the Seoul metropolitan constabulary bureau were not answered.

Kim Jeong-hee, a spokesperson for the organizing committee, said the verdict was unconstitutional due to the fact that same-sex matrimony has not been legalized.

"I deliberation that would lone beryllium the starting constituent for same-sex matrimony legalization policy," Kim said. "We spot this not simply arsenic a Christian issue, but arsenic a immense situation that shakes our country's foundation."

The tribunal had said that with nary clauses successful the nationalist wellness security enactment that notation to same-sex union, denial of benefits to specified radical constitutes favoritism based connected intersexual orientation.

Some participants held signs saying "oppose the anti-discrimination law" and "protect our children from sex pollution, sex disorder and sex part destruction."

A conjugation of hundreds of LGBTQ activists and Catholic and Anglican organizations issued a connection criticizing the associated work arsenic an enactment that denies the values of inclusiveness, diverseness and respect for quality rights and an effort to infringe connected the minority's quality rights successful the sanction of the majority.