{"id":247728,"date":"2023-06-13T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=247728"},"modified":"2023-06-13T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T14:48:55","slug":"same-sex-marriage-morality-vs-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/same-sex-marriage-morality-vs-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage: Morality vs equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cSame-sex marriage: Morality vs equality\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 13th June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus:<\/strong> GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population. GS2- Judiciary<\/p>\n

Relevance-<\/strong> Issues related to LGBT<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>Just a few days before the Supreme Court of India commenced hearings on the same-sex marriage issue.<\/p>\n

What questions arises when SC follows a liberal approach in deciding the same-sex marriages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Court should be neutral on moral questions<\/strong> about the desirability of marriage, meaning of marriage<\/strong>. This neutrality is mandated by its jurisprudence on equality for all<\/strong> irrespective of social or personal morality.<\/p>\n

Constitutional morality<\/strong> has been used by the Supreme Court in many cases to maintain neutrality on moral issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following this neutrality would mean that people\u2019s legal rights<\/strong> are protected irrespective of the societies\u2019 moral view.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But to mandate the state to recognise a particular kind of marriage based on equality<\/strong> is to recognise marriage as a social honou<\/strong>r. It would be violating the liberal tenet of neutrality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As per liberal theory<\/strong>, state intervention<\/strong> in the matter is only the second-best option<\/strong>. The idea of liberalism is that the state should be neutral to moral concerns about institutions like marriage.<\/p>\n

What is the basis of an equality based and privacy-based approach for deciding same sex marriages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Citizens who see and value marriage as a heterosexual institution<\/strong> would be asked to recognise same-sex marriages<\/strong>, not as a matter of shared understanding but as a duty we owe to strangers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the matter were to be decided based on \u201cintrinsic value or social importance of the practice\u201d<\/strong>, one avoids the alienation<\/strong> that gives rise to fundamentalist tendencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the best way forward to decide about same-sex marriages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Compared to liberal court decisions imposed on a reluctant public, ultimately <\/strong>sustainable decisions were forced on parties and electoral assemblies by ad hoc citizens\u2019 assemblies in Ireland and the pressure of citizens\u2019 initiatives in Finland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ideally these questions should be left for citizens\u2019 assemblies or citizens\u2019 initiatives<\/strong> like in Ireland or Finland. In India, there is a need to look for equivalents. Reviving Gandhi\u2019s \u201clittle republics\u201d <\/strong>could be a good starting point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cSame-sex marriage: Morality vs equality\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 13th June 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population. GS2- Judiciary Relevance- Issues related to LGBT News- Just a few days before the Supreme Court of India commenced hearings on the same-sex marriage issue. What questions… Continue reading Same-sex marriage: Morality vs equality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-247728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":43,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702060516},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247728","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}