การศึกษาทัศนคติของเยาวชนที่มีต่อการสมรสเพศเดียวกัน

Abstract

This research aims at studying attitudes of youths towards same-sex marriage and finding reasons why they support or oppose same-sex marriage law in order to have legislative know important information for issuing the law. This research employs mix-methods; quantitative method collected data from 453 Srinakarintarawirot students of all sexes and genders by online surveys. Qualitative method collected data by interviewing 15 students. LGBT interviewees were collected by purposive sampling and male and female interviewees were collected by accidental sampling. The results found that most of the sample group highly agreed on legalizing same-sex marriage in Thailand. They agreed that all human being whatever sex should have an equal right. Denial of the recognition of same-sex marriage law is a denial of their fundamental human rights. Moreover, they also think that if the law is passed, the legislative should issue Same-sex Marriage Bill more than Civil Partnership Bill for the reason that it grants more rights and benefits of marriage as similar as the heterosexual couple. They also suggested that legislative should not only issue related laws, but should also prescribe portion of members of parliament for LGBT so that they can be an MP in order to help support law for their groups. Government should cooperate with NGOs or LGBT associations to help LGBT and cooperate with media in creating campaigns so that people will understand them more.