Data Doesn't Support BCI's Claim Of Over 99.9% Against Marriage Equality
By Mohammed Kudrati The Bar Council of India (BCI) passed a resolution on April 23, 2023, requesting the Supreme Court to leave the issue of marriage equality to the legislative process and claimed that over 99.9% of Indians are opposed to the idea. BOOM found that while surveys and polls done on the issue of marriage equality show varying results, none of them come remotely close to the 99.9% figure cited by the BCI. These publicly available survey results show opposition to marriage equality to be as high as 62%, with another one showing support being as high as 53% among Gen Z (those betwee...