Tue Mar 14, 2023 – 6:43 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Supreme Court of India will begin hearing final arguments in favor of the legal recognition of same-sex unions as marriages next month, a legislation change opposed by the government.
The country’s highest court is set to hear support for such relationships after receiving several pleas challenging current legislation that still recognizes marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A five-judge bench will hear the arguments on April 18.
India’s Ministry of Law maintains that marriages recognized under the law should only be reserved for a man and a woman, according to a private court filing provided to Reuters.
“Living together as partners and having sexual relationship by same sex individuals … is not comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children,” the government stated in the filing. The ministry also criticized the requests “to change the entire legislative policy of the country deeply embedded in religious and societal norms.”
Dattatreya Hosabale, an official within the national Hindu volunteer organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, endorsed the government’s position on the debate, saying “marriage can only take place between
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