Same-Sex Marriage/Marriage Equality- Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES - DAY 8

Dwivedi: Producing children, rearing children - we don't want to be America. There are families impressed by that but everything is not beautiful there. 

Dwivedi: Even IVF is surrogacy- coming together of an egg and a sperm. Ultimately your family is dependent on a heterosexual union. That's the fundamental truth, cosmic unity. 

Justice Bhat: So you're saying procreation is the definition of marriage?

Dwivedi: Society cannot survive. See the problem china and Japan are facing. We cannot IVF and adoption. Some heterosexual has produced.

Dwivedi: Core content is a man and a woman coming together. As even Bible says - go be fruitful and multiply. Every religion says.

Dwivedi: We all want our own child. That's how we build it. Our concept is different. Take any religion.

Dwivedi: The generality is that our population has grown from 44 crores to 1.4 billion is not because of some people who didn't procreate. We reached here because in general people want to come together, cohabitate, engage in sex not for pleasure but for building a family of own

Dwivedi: Family life will depend from case to case but marriage will not. Marriage is to bring about a unity of man and woman for a social purpose. Because society needs to perpetuate itself.

Justice Bhat: You see construction workers, migrants- they're away from homes throughout year. They go back for 15-20 days. What is the family life? What is cohabitation for them?

Dwivedi: If you treat marriage as an individual concept where spouses define what marriage is- there will be no law.

Justice Bhat: There is a law but noone is compelled to have children or live together.

Justice Bhat: Apart from blood relationships, there is marriage relationships- like sisters in law etc. Why is that relationship prohibited? Perhaps a deep rooted public interest - orderliness. That is state interest.