same-sex marriage

to get married with same-sex person

to accept, admit, to approve, to allow / to recognize / to acknowledge / to concede / to appreciate, to witness / to observe or notice

write (some text; a letter); put down (one's thoughts on paper) / eat; put down (a meal) / treat; deal with / prepare / subdue

same sex / having the same nature

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

continuative of the passive of 思う (omou); continuative of 思われる (omowareru)

(as と思われ) (2channel slang) Synonym of と思う (to omou)

in my opinion; I think; I guess; upon thought; upon reflection; upon contemplation / conceivably; presumably