{"id":239859,"date":"2023-04-27T19:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239859"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:05:22","slug":"right-to-marry-is-not-absolute-laws-regulate-marriage-centre-tells-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-marry-is-not-absolute-laws-regulate-marriage-centre-tells-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to marry is not absolute, laws regulate marriage, Centre tells SC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cRight to marry is not absolute, laws regulate marriage, Centre tells SC\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>27th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has continued to hear a batch of pleas seeking legal recognition for same-sex marriages.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the case about?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-supreme-court-verdicts-that-moved-the-needle-on-lgbtq-rights-in-india\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Central Government&#8217;s stand on same-sex marriage?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Government has opposed same-sex marriage. It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has argued that the right to marry is not an \u201cabsolute right\u201d and petitioners cannot compel the state to grant legal status to same-sex marriage through a judicial declaration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It reiterated its humble request to the Supreme Court not to rewrite the Special Marriage Act (SMA) for legal validation of same-sex marriages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also said that the legal recognition of same-sex marriage by making the Special Marriage Act gender-neutral should ideally be debated in Parliament and not the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is because the debate in Parliament will be assisted by national views, views of experts, and views on impact, effects and what are implications of several laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 was the Parliament\u2019s response to the decriminalization of homosexuality by the Supreme Court in 2018. The term \u2018transgender person\u2019 in the act is widely defined to include all spectrums of the LGBTQIA+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cRight to marry is not absolute, laws regulate marriage, Centre tells SC\u201d published in The Hindu on 27th April 2023 What is the News? The Supreme Court has continued to hear a batch of pleas seeking legal recognition for same-sex marriages. What is the case about? Click&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-marry-is-not-absolute-laws-regulate-marriage-centre-tells-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right to marry is not absolute, laws regulate marriage, Centre tells SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[11552,10498],"class_list":["post-239859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-right-to-marry","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}