Same­sex marriage will‘cause havoc’: Government in Supreme Court

The Centre’s affidavit filed in the SC firmly opposing legal recognition for same-sex marriages states there are a slew of legislations pertaining to adoption, maintenance, rape, dowry prohibition, cruelty etc., that recognise only hetrosexual couples and these laws cannot be applicable in case of same-sex marriage as it is neither possible nor feasible to term one as ‘husband’ and the other as ‘wife’.