Civil Liberties:The freedoms guaranteed to individuals by law, such as freedom of speech and religion, including the right to marry regardless of gender.
Political Culture:The set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments that give order and meaning to a political process and which provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the political system, influencing how societies view same-sex marriage.
Illiberal Representative Regimes: Political systems where elected representatives exercise power with little regard for rule of law, often suppressing individual liberties such as the right to same-sex marriage