NEW DELHI – The Indian authorities opposes recognizing same-sex marriages, it stated in a submitting to the Supreme Court on Sunday, urging the courtroom to reject challenges to the present authorized framework lodged by LGBT {couples}.

The Ministry of Law believes that whereas there could also be numerous types of relationships in society, the authorized recognition of marriage is for heterosexual relationships and the state has a respectable curiosity in sustaining this, in line with the submitting seen by Reuters, which has not been made public.

The intent of current laws “was limited to the recognition of a legal relationship of marriage between a man and a woman, represented as a husband and wife.”