NPF condemns same sex Marriage: Azo
- 11th May 2023 : Naga People's Front -
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The Supreme Court of India is hearing a case relating to allowing same-sex marriages. It is a case of a very sensitive nature and one that can have far-reaching implications on the nature of society existing for years and on the very foundations of traditions upheld for millennia.
I on my behalf and on behalf of the Naga People’s Front is of the view that the honourable Supreme Court should not allow legalized-sex marriages. The government of India has rightly opposed same-sex marriages.
Naga customary law nor any of the known faiths including Christianity, allow for marriages among same sexes, whether men or women. These religious institutions that are repositories of centuries of wisdom had a variety of reasons for not allowing such institutionalized relationships.
As first described in Genesis, marriage is a God-ordained, covenant relationship between a man and a woman. The US-based National Association of Evangelicals quotes Matthew 19:4-6:
“Haven’t you read,” Jesus replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Notwithstanding what is in the scriptures, the Naga people have traditionally followed age-old wisdom and have believed in the holy union of man and woman which is marriage.
Therefore, what is being proposed is unwise and not only against centuries of wisdom but also against popular thought and belief in Nagaland and elsewhere in India and rest of the world.
Let us also talk of the practical fallout of a move to legalize same-sex marriage.
India itself will have to amend a host of laws relating to inheritance and even custody of children in case of separation of partners due to the debatable nature of who is the man and who is wife. This will lead to further complications and legal tangles that may not be easy to resolve.
It may be impossible to reconcile such a change with respect to Naga customary law.
In conclusion, it will be an unwise and impractical move to legalize same-sex marriage. India legalized homosexuality in 2018 following a Supreme Court order and this was largely tolerated and accepted, even if grudgingly by many. But NPF foresees that legalizing same-sex marriages may have a more unsavoury reaction from the society at large.
(Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu)
MLA & Leader of NPF Legislature Party.
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This article was posted on May 12, 2023 .
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