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New Delhi: More than 30 LGBTQIA+ collectives of law school students have said the Bar Council of India (BCI) resolution urging the Supreme Court not to deal with pleas seeking legalisation of same-sex marriage is “antithetical” to the Constitution.
The apex bar body, on April 23, had expressed its concern on the same-sex marriage issue being heard in the Supreme Court, saying it would be “catastrophic” to overhaul something as fundamental as the concept of marriage and the matter should be left to the legislature.
The resolution, which was issued by the BCI after a joint meeting attended by representatives of all state bar councils, said any decision by the apex court in such a sensitive matter may prove very harmful to the future generation of the country.
Condemning the stand, the LGBTQIA+ collectives of over 600 law school students said, “The (BCI) resolution is ignorant, harmful, and antithetical to our Constitution and the spirit of inclusive social life. As future members of the Bar, it has been alienating and hurtful to see our seniors engage in such hateful rhetoric.”
“It attempts to tell queer persons that the law and the legal profession have no place for them. We, the undersigned, are queer and allied student groups across Indian law schools,” they said in a statement.
The statement said that the very objective of making the Constitution was to save the minorities from the ‘rules and regulations’ drawn by the upper-class casteist and patriarchal society.
“Constitutional morality dictates that marriage equality must not be made subject to the wishes of a casteist, cis-heteronormative, and patriarchal society. It is to save people from the worst scourges of public opinion that we have a Constitution in the first place,” the statement read.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )