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Live | Same Sex Marriage Case | Supreme Court of India | CJI Chandrachud with Constitutional Bench

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The Solicitor General argues that defining marriage for same-sex couples is a complex legislative matter, not a judicial one, due to its extensive social, legal, and religious ramifications, the need for broad societal debate, and the impossibility for courts to regulate the myriad of resulting issues across diverse gender identities and existing laws.

Key Points

  • The primary argument is that defining what constitutes marriage, particularly for new classes of people, is a matter of legislative policy and societal debate, not judicial adjudication. 
  • Any redefinition of marriage would have extensive and unintended ramifications on over 160 sections across various existing statutes that conventionally define "man" and "woman." 
  • Historically, legislative policy in India, across all laws, has consistently recognized marriage as an institution between a conventional man and a conventional woman. 
  • While the Transgender Act acknowledges LGBTQ+ rights and prohibits discrimination, the right to marry does not inherently include the right to compel the state to create a new definition of marriage. 
  • The Special Marriage Act's core architecture recognizes marriage between a conventional man and woman, and courts cannot rewrite or expand its scope by substituting terms like "person" for "male and female," especially when such inclusion was consciously omitted. 
  • The diverse and "unidentifiable" nature of the LGBTQIA+ "plus" community, encompassing over 72 gender variations, makes it impossible for courts to conceive and regulate all potential situations arising from a judicial redefinition of marriage. 
  • Marriage is a heavily regulated socio-legal institution, and judicial recognition without the legislature's ability to foresee and regulate the myriad of complex situations would lead to unmanageable contingencies. 
  • Marriage is a deeply embedded social and religious institution, historically understood across major world religions as a union between heterosexual couples, often for procreation and societal furtherance, predating statutory recognition. 
  • Drawing from international jurisprudence, the Solicitor General emphasizes that profound moral and social questions, like the definition of marriage, should be returned to elected representatives for debate and decision, rather than being settled by judicial fiat. 
Live | Same Sex Marriage Case | Supreme Court of India | CJI Chandrachud with Constitutional Bench

Live | Same Sex Marriage Case | Supreme Court of India | CJI Chandrachud with Constitutional Bench

The Solicitor General argues that defining marriage for same-sex couples is a complex legislative matter, not a judicial one, due to its extensive social, legal, and religious ramifications, the need for broad societal debate, and the impossibility for courts to regulate the myriad of resulting issues across diverse gender identities and existing laws.

Key Points

—The primary argument is that defining what constitutes marriage, particularly for new classes of people, is a matter of legislative policy and societal debate, not judicial adjudication.
—Any redefinition of marriage would have extensive and unintended ramifications on over 160 sections across various existing statutes that conventionally define "man" and "woman."
—Historically, legislative policy in India, across all laws, has consistently recognized marriage as an institution between a conventional man and a conventional woman.
—While the Transgender Act acknowledges LGBTQ+ rights and prohibits discrimination, the right to marry does not inherently include the right to compel the state to create a new definition of marriage.
—The Special Marriage Act's core architecture recognizes marriage between a conventional man and woman, and courts cannot rewrite or expand its scope by substituting terms like "person" for "male and female," especially when such inclusion was consciously omitted.
—The diverse and "unidentifiable" nature of the LGBTQIA+ "plus" community, encompassing over 72 gender variations, makes it impossible for courts to conceive and regulate all potential situations arising from a judicial redefinition of marriage.
—Marriage is a heavily regulated socio-legal institution, and judicial recognition without the legislature's ability to foresee and regulate the myriad of complex situations would lead to unmanageable contingencies.
—Marriage is a deeply embedded social and religious institution, historically understood across major world religions as a union between heterosexual couples, often for procreation and societal furtherance, predating statutory recognition.
—Drawing from international jurisprudence, the Solicitor General emphasizes that profound moral and social questions, like the definition of marriage, should be returned to elected representatives for debate and decision, rather than being settled by judicial fiat.
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