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Saurabh Kirpal on the Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality in India

Ideas of India

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The Reimagination of Marriage Equality

A vast swathe of India is absolutely okay with it. They think we have it already and for any Indian parent more than anything else, their desire is that child should get married. That is the be all and end all along with getting a government job maybe or getting a good job somewhere. So now if adoption is permitted marriage equality is permitted. It'll just revolutionize how people see queer people and how families see because there will then be an opportunity for a belief that their child will have a full life. I don't see like big protests and huge backlash. Of course, there are small interest groups who are always going to make some noise but broadly like the people of India, I

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