Parliament, not courts, best place to debate same-sex marriage, India minister says

FILE PHOTO: India's Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Bhupender Yadav speaks during the COP27 climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's parliament, not a court of law, is the best place to debate the issue of same-sex marriage, an influential government minister said on Friday, as the country's top court heard appeals asking for such unions to be recognised.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has already opposed these appeals, some from gay couples, on the grounds that such marriages are not "comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children."