Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such marriag.
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GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday. * gay wedding legal in india *
A lg that fds gay marriag are allowed unr India’s nstutn would n unter to the socially nservative sentiment of Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Hdu-natnalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as wi swaths of the untry’s Mlim muny. In 2018, crimalized homosexual sex — overturng a Brish lonial-era law — and expand nstutnal rights for LGBTQ people.
” He has urged the ernment to strongly argue agast legal sanctn for gay marriag. In 2018, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hdu-natnalist group, agreed wh the top urt lg crimalizg gay sex but mataed that same-sex relatnships are “neher natural nor sirable.
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The All India Mlim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), a non-ernmental body that works to protect and propagate Mlim personal laws, such as those alg wh fay issu, oppos homosexualy, termg immoral. ) Some groups of the much smaller Christian populatn had argued agast legalizg homosexualy 2018 and said that “same-sex marriag would bee social experiments wh unpredictable oute.
In ral parts of the untry though, where roughly two-thirds of the untry’s populatn liv, beg gay n still be nsired taboo. That means the urt will addrs whether gay marriage will be allowed unr the Hdu Marriage Act, the Indian Christian Marriage Act, the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, and Mlim personal laws (which are largely undified) addn to the secular — Special Marriage Act — which erns unns between terfah upl, non-believers and others.