Same Sex Marriages: Valid Or Not
The supreme court using its powers under article 145 legalize same sex
marriages to a constitution bench comprising of 5 judges. The supreme court has
complied all its underlying petition and the final arguments are to be held on
18 as many homosexuals are fighting for the legalization of same sex marriages
so that they can avail legalized marriages like for April benefits of example,
LGBTQIA+ couples cannot adopt children or have a child by surrogacy; they do not
have automatic rights to inheritance, maintenance and tax benefits; after a
partner passes away, they cannot avail of benefit s like pension or
compensation. The government has opposed such kind of marriages and it stance on
the issue is important to know what rights does the LGBTQ community has.
The government has filed affidavit in court arguing that traditionally the
notion o marriage is socially, culturally f marriage was between a man and a
women. The concept of and legally ingrained and hence does not need judicial
interpretation to change it. Also the government fears that same sex marriages
could create a havoc in society with change in traditional laws and personal
laws.
The law minister Kiran Rijuju also said that marriage is a matter of policy and
can be addressed by legislature and executive alone hence indirectly asking the
court to stay out of the matter. However all the contention of the government
are baseless and frivolous without any reasonable argument and reasoning. The
statue has enacted special marriage act 1955 which says that any person can
marry one another.
This statue was enacted so that people from differ ent caste can marry each
other without compromising and amending their personal and traditional laws.
Same goes with the reasoning here in the present case. There is no need to amend
personal laws in same sex marriages and these marriages can be regulated by
special marriage act itself.
There just need to be an amendment which could expressly allow same sex marriage
however in the exisisting law under section 4 it says for any two person can
marry one another condition that no person has an existing spouse. The statement
of our law minister that it is a matter of state policy which must not be open
to judicial interference assumes that no rights of any party is being violated
is absured.
The right to privacy is being violated as regarded in KS PUTTASAWMY cas e which
says that "Privacy includes at its core the preservation of personal intimacies,
the sanctity of family life, marriage, procreation, the home and sexual
orientation." The right to privacy entails the right of the citizens to make
decisions about th eir family life and marriage. The state currently denies same
sex couples of this right constitution being a social organism whose meaning
changes with time and changing social conditions same is the notion of marriage.
It must change with changing time.
Our es to has an good effect in the society . In other countries like In October
2019, samesex marriage became legal in Northern Ireland . Although Northern
Island is a constituent of the United Kingdom, with its own parliament at
Stormont, the change in its marriage laws ultimately came about due to action by
the UK's Parliament in London. British lawmakers justified the change (which was
accompanied by the legalization of abortion) because the Northern Irish
parliament was suspended due to a stalemate between Northern Ireland's parties.
in January 2017
Northern Ireland had been the last part of the UK where same-sex marriage was
banned; England and Wales moved to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed in 2013
and Scotland followed in 2014 . The South African parliament legalized same-sex
marriage in November 2006, one year after the country's highest court ruled that
the previous marriage laws violated the South African constitution's guarantee
of equal rights.
The new law allows for religious institutions and civil officers to refuse to
conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies, a provision that critics claim violates
the rights of same-sex couples under the constitution.The new measure passed by
a margin of greater than five-to-one, with support coming from both the
governing African National Congress as well as the main opposition party, the
Democratic Alliance.
However, the traditional monarch of the Zulu people, who account for about
one-fifth of the country's population, maintains that homosexuality is morally
wrong. According to a study by UNICEF, there are 29.6 million orphaned and
abandoned children in India which is a country with a disconcertingly low
adoption rate.
However, the willing samesex couples are still deprived of their adoption rights
in the country. once the same sex marriages are legalised it would increase the
adoption and would give the children a new life and good education which would
further help the country increasing the GDP.
Also it was assumed that after Navtej Singh Johar vs UOI i.e
decriminalisation of homosexuality the government would automatically make rules
regarding rights of LGBTQ community and would allow same sex marriages thus
making India not a rigid but a liberal society respecting peoples opinion and
their right to live according to the way they want. The government must rethink
their stance and give validity to same sex marriages establishing the rights
enshrined in the constitution and help achive a sane and undivided united
society.
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