{"id":59250,"date":"2023-10-17T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/17\/india-same-sex-gay-marriage-supreme-court-decision-verdict"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:18:17","slug":"indias-supreme-court-to-hand-down-verdict-on-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59250","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s supreme court declines to legally recognise same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges say decision should be made by parliament but stress that such unions should not face discrimination<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s top court has declined to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages, saying it is beyond its scope and should be decided by parliament, but emphasising that queer relationships should not face discrimination by the state.<\/p>\n<p>The marriage ruling will be a disappointment for LGBTQ+ people in India, who had hoped the supreme court judges would recognise their constitutional right to marriage equality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/17\/india-same-sex-gay-marriage-supreme-court-decision-verdict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges say decision should be made by parliament but stress that such unions should not face discriminationIndia\u2019s top court has declined to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages, saying it is beyond its scope and should be decided by parliamen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2729,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-lgbtq-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59250\/revisions\/59263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}