The choice for SC is between granting legal status to same-sex marriage or acting as facilitator to ease partners’ daily concerns
The Hindu
The choice for SC is between granting legal status to same-sex marriage or acting as facilitator to ease partners’ daily concerns
The Constitution Bench judgment on Tuesday will show whether the Supreme Court will declare full legal status to same-sex marriage in India or merely restrain itself to the role of a “facilitator” to push the government for a few administrative tweaks to ease the day-to-day human concerns faced by cohabiting same-sex partners in areas like joint banking, insurance and admissions of children to schools, etc.
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The Union Government, which has opposed same-sex marriage, had proposed a committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary to consider administrative measures for addressing these “genuine, human concerns” faced by same sex couples in their daily lives.
The court had viewed the government’s proposal to form the committee as a “building block” for future changes.
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