The Government on Sunday submitted to the country’s Supreme Court its explicit rejection of same-sex marriages after the court agreed to consider a petition for the legalization of such marriages, which will be heard on Monday.
»The very notion of marriage necessarily and inevitably presupposes a union between two persons of the opposite sex,» according to the official document reported by the ‘Hindustan Times’ in which the Indian government asks the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition.
»This definition,» the government adds, »is socially, culturally and legally rooted in the very idea and concept of marriage and should not be disturbed or diluted by judicial interpretation.»
Late last year, the Supreme Court decided to consider a petition to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide by taking advantage of the benefits offered by the interfaith marriage law, the declaration of privacy as a fundamental right and the decriminalization of same-sex relationships in 2018.
All these laws have been evoked by a homosexual couple to raise their case before the country’s Supreme Court, whose magistrates, the petitioners recall, have already expressed on more than one occasion that members of the LGBTQ+ community have the same fundamental and constitutional rights as other citizens.
However, the legal framework regulating the institution of marriage in India does not allow for the marriage of members of the LGBTQ+ community, in what the petitioners consider a violation of the national Constitution.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
