Same Sex Marriage- Supreme Court Constitution Bench Hearing- DAY-3 LIVE UPDATES

Vishwanathan cites US courts judgments which upheld miscegenation laws which prohibited inter-racial marriages. Reads out passages to argue that the argument against same-sex marriages are similar to those arguments against inter-racial marriages.

Vishwanathan cites judgements.

CJI DY Chandrachud: People are moving away from the notion that you must have a boy.

CJI DY Chandrachud: Even popular countries like China are losing on demographic dividends. Young, highly educated don't want to have children - that's a matter of choice.

CJI DY Chandrachud: Just in the case of heterosexual couples now with the spread of education, the pressures of the modern age, increasingly, couples are either childless or single child couples.

Justice Bhat: It's a gateway. It opens up so many possibilities, so many rights- those which you can enjoy. Those you cannot be part of, you don't.

Vishwanathan: But the choice- the choice should be available.

Vishwanathan: LGBTQ parents are as qualified to rear children as the heterosexual parents.

CJI DY Chandrachud: Same sex couples seek the same benefits of marriage. There are a whole range of benefits that cohabitation and marriage provide.

Vishwanathan: If this argument is taken to it's logical conclusion- then you shouldn't save money, vote- because all that is for the future generation and you can't procreate!

CJI DY Chandrachud: There are no absolutes as I said, even at the risk of getting trolled.

CJI DY Chandrachud: And what happens when there is a heterosexual couple and the child sees domestic violence? Will that child grow up in a normal atmosphere? Of a father becoming an alcoholic, coming home and thrashing the mother every night, and asking for money for alcohol