If the Special Marriage Act can first be modernized and made genuinely functional, the more difficult conversation -- extending that same civil framework -- becomes conceivable. Until then, it remains a conversation without legal ground to stand on.
Here is the cruel asymmetry that exposes the game. Hurt religious sentiment is always, unfailingly, something felt by the majority or by those who claim to speak in its name. No minority, no freethinker, no ordinary citizen can ever demand accountability for the trampling of their own emotions.
