He specific. Who has asked for a special status that you are so worried about?

Who is asking for special status? Getting married is special status?

If you are openly in an inter faith relationship in India you are in trouble. Fuck that, for most people, if you are openly in any relationship, you are in trouble. Same sex relationships are out of the question. Step out of your bubble.

>the case to decriminalise homosexuality was referred by SC to be taken up by in legislation instead as court felt it didn’t have a legal right to change that law(which they did).

This is completely incorrect. That particular provision which criminalises sodomy was read down by the supreme court to not include consensual sex between consenting adults of any gender. The decriminalisation of homosexuality was not brought about by any legislation.

The current Chief Justice is pretty liberal and will probably relish writing a judgment according recognition to same sex marriage. But the problem is that the petition is flawed, imo. It is seeking recognition of same sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act. The Special Marriage Act is the legislation which governs marriages in India which are not performed as per Hindu or Muslim rituals. Both those religions have their own legislation regulating Hindu and Muslim marriages.

The Special Marriage Act which is for anyone who does not want to get married as per Hindu or Muslim rituals is a pretty fucked up legislation because it has a requirement of a notice period of 30 days for objections from the general public to 2 people who want to get married. So the names, addresses, and photographs of the 2 people getting married are literally posted on a notice board outside the local govt office and anyone can go and lodge objections if they have any.

We are already seeing this procedure cause problems in inter faith marriages where a Hindu and a Muslim get married or a Hindu and a Christian get married. There are weirdos who keep an eye on these notice boards and once they see an jnter faith marriage, they start harassing the 2 parties and their family members. I think it's going to be much the same with same sex marriages. So that's not going to be very good.

Hopefully the Supreme Court decides to also declare the requirement for this public notice to be unconstitutional and do away with that requirement.

>Article 377 was legalised by supreme court in 2017, and courts are bigger than govt in India.

Good fucking lord. Almost nothing in that sentence is correct and shows how little you know about what you are talking about.

Also, transgender rights is a separate issue to gay/lesbian marriage. Don't conflate issues. Transgenders have a unique position in Indian society for religious reasons. That does not mean gays and lesbians are not mistreated and discriminated against.

Please refer to Sushil Modi's speech in Parliament day before yesterday.

Please note the lack of any stand taken by the Union govt in the petitions seeking decriminalization of homsexuality. This was both the Congress and the BJP govts.

Conservatives have now started liking Kanye and that's because they like anyone who spews vile hateful shit. But up until now, he was also covered very sympathetically by liberal media. And a lot of people justified his bullshit. Always thought he's an overrated asshole. His above average music doesn't justify his obnoxious attitude.

I come from a country which has problems with adulation for toxic celebrities (India), but the USA takes it to a new level with rationalising the bullshit celebrities do. This guy released a good album almost 2 decades ago. He's released some decent music since then as well. But somehow he is regarded as some great thinker when he's always been a shallow, angry little moron. But you will have so called liberals celebrating him because he's apparently a black man who made it big. Only goes to show how shallow those people are.