In India, the legalization of same-sex marriage remains a contentious issue. While same-sex relationships were decriminalized in 2018 by the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage is not yet legally recognized. However, there have been significant developments in recent years towards greater acceptance and recognition of LGBT rights.
In 2020, the Delhi High Court recognized the right of a same-sex couple to live together as partners, holding that such relationships are protected under the right to life and personal liberty under the Indian Constitution. This was a significant milestone in the recognition of same-sex relationships in India.
In addition, several states in India, including Delhi and Uttarakhand, have passed laws recognizing same-sex partnerships, providing legal recognition and protection to same-sex couples in areas such as property rights, inheritance, and adoption.
However, there are still significant challenges to the legalization of same-sex marriage in India. These include resistance from conservative religious and cultural groups, as well as legal and social barriers to greater acceptance and recognition of LGBT rights.
To address these challenges, it is important to continue to promote greater awareness and understanding of LGBT rights in India and to engage in dialogue and advocacy with key stakeholders, including religious and cultural groups, policymakers, and the broader public. This could involve developing targeted campaigns and initiatives aimed at promoting greater acceptance and understanding of LGBT issues and building coalitions with other groups and organizations that support LGBT rights. It may also involve challenging existing legal barriers to same-sex marriage through strategic litigation and advocacy efforts
Authorization of such practices is absolutely against nature. It will lead to the self-destruction of humanity. It is against sustainable development itself. Very soon there will be no future generation on planet Earth. We need to be more courageous to shout out loud to stop this self-destruction of humanity.
While I would not presume to express a personal opinion on the main issue, which is dependent on cultural and ideological issues particular to the jurisdiction, I think it important to consider the implications in relation to children in a family with a same-sex couple. In the case of a married heterosexual couple, the laws usually contain provisions and arrangements as to the responsibilities of parents to the child, even if the child is biologically related to only one of them. So if same-sex marriage is to be recognized, there needs to be some comparable legal arrangement - since the child is biologically related to only one member of the couple (except in the case of adoption or non-related surrogacy). See my two-part article on Parental Responsibilities in Journal of Child Custody.
The rights of same sex adult cohabitants are autonomous and independent to marriage. Marriage is the legal framework of human reproduction, certainly possible also in many other manners, but naturally happening in the prolonged cohabitation of a male and a female human adult. Assigning the marital status to any other form of sociality is equal to cancel the protection of human childhood as developed by the lay laws of any society in history - not just the religious laws. Alexander the Great passed his whole life with Hefestion, without pretending to marry him. It is not a question of traditional or religiuos feelings, but just biology (and natural law)
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