Not our culture; the Bar Council of India opposes same-sex marriages

Bar Council of India (BCI) on Sunday passed a resolution opposing the grant of legal recognition to same-sex marriages. Advocate and chairman of the Bar Council of India, Manan Kumar Mishra said that same-sex marriage is against the culture of the country.

The Supreme Court earlier on Thursday said it may be redefining the “evolving notion of marriage” as the next step after decriminalising consensual homosexual relationships which implicitly recognised that same-sex people could live in a stable marriage-like relationship.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which heard a batch of petitions seeking legal sanction for same-sex marriage, did not agree to the contention that, unlike heterosexuals same-sex couples cannot take proper care of their children.