India’s top court has left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the legislature is the right forum to rule on the contentious issue.
The unanimous order by a five-judge bench came as a huge disappointment to the LGBTQ community in the world’s most populous country, five years after the court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex.
Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) administration had opposed petitions to the court on the issue, saying same-sex marriage is not “comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children.”
Source CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-lgbtq-same-sex-marriage-1.6998497