[Marriage Equality]- Same-Sex Relationships not just physical but stable marriage-like: CJI Chandrachu

 

The historic hearing on the matter of Marriage Equality/ Same-Sex Marriage continued on day three in Supreme Court.

The Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has significantly remarked that by decriminalizing homosexuality, one can contemplate that people who belong to the same-sex would be in stable marriage-like relationships. 

Here are other important observations from the third-day hearing as the court stands adjourned till Monday on the matter:

- "We have already reached the intermediate stage that by decriminalising homosexuality, one can contemplate that people who belong to the same-sex would be in stable marriage-like relationships," CJI observed.

- "In the last 69 years, our law has really evolved. When you decriminalize homosexuality, you also realise that these are not one-off relationships, these are also stable relationships," he noted.

- "We see these same-sex relationships not just as physical relations but something more of a stable, emotional relationship," Justice Chandrachud said on the third day of the hearing by a five-judge bench

- "Legalising same-sex marriage requires us to redefine the evolving notion of marriage. Because is the existence of two spouses who belong to a binary gender a necessary requirement for marriage?" he asked.

- "There are no absolutes, as I said, even at the risk of getting trolled. And what happens when there is a heterosexual couple and the child sees domestic violence? Will that child grow up in a normal atmosphere? Of a father becoming an alcoholic, coming home and thrashing the mother every night, and asking for money for alcohol," CJI said.

 

-"Just in the case of heterosexual couples, now with the spread of education, the pressures of the modern age, increasingly, couples are either childless or single child couples... People are moving away from the notion that you must have a boy," CJI observed while responding to arguments about the impact of same-sex marriages on children.

 

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