Same Sex Marriage- Supreme Court Constitution Bench Hearing-DAY-2- LIVE UPDATES

Singhvi: Therefore your lordships will be protecting the petitioners from both these actors- state and non state actors.

Singhvi: It is also groups- private groups and non-state actors, which are entrenched forces over the years, whether in society or forms of organisation- we also need protection from those groups.

Singhvi: The other facet of this is the recognition that it is not the state alone which imperils the core values of equality, liberty, fraternity. 

Singhvi: Your lordship has dealt with anti discrimination as the underlying philosophy of Navtej Johar. Your lordship is now knitting a more seamless web of anti discrimination.

Singhvi: Your lordships are removing the next brick of exclusion and discrimination.

Singhvi: Navtej Johar was momentous by decriminalization but it still remains in a real sense- little done, vast undone. Your lordships is now travelling to reach significant done.

Singhvi: The obverse heart of the case is the discriminatory denial to a section of the community to do it based on that sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity - that is the exclusion, the discrimination.

Singhvi: And the heart of the matter is to manifest the idea of love in marriage regardless of those distinctions- sex, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

Singhvi: The heart of this case is the right to choose the most enduring of all relationships, the marital relationship, regardless of sex and sexual orientation.

Singhvi: My submission is that the heart of this case is not about the statutory provisions, the weaving of these sections as constitutionally compliant or non-compliant, the notice regime- these are all important.