NEW DELHI: In the midst of protests in Kerala against the Supreme Court ruling striking down the ban on women of menstrual age from entering Sabarimala temple, senior BJP leader and Union minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said courts must be uniform in looking at practices of all faiths.“If you want to take a progressive step. Articles 14 and 21 (of the Constitution) will apply against all religions,” Jaitley said at the HT Leadership Summit here.“It cannot happen that you select a practice and apply it because that will have social consequences. If you start stepping into the religious practices and customs and say Article 14 must be tested on personal law, then will it apply to polygamy? Will it apply to oral divorces? Will it apply to other religions where women are not allowed to enter religious places?” he asked. “If you are being progressive and bold then it must be uniformly so and that doesn’t seem to be happening,” he said.The comments came in the backdrop of the government’s recent ordinance to criminalise triple talaq , and are seen to reflect BJP’s stand on the SC’s recent verdict in the Sabarimala case.The minister’s comments came against the backdrop of the government’s recently coming up with an ordinance to criminalise triple talaq (instant divorce) as the bill hit a road block in Rajya Sabha in the face of opposition reservations, and are seen as reflecting BJP’s stand on the SC’s verdict in the Sabarimala case, overturning the tradition of not allowing women in the age group of 10-50 years from entering the shrine. Jaitley also expressed his disagreement with portions of SC’s recent judgments on gay sex (Section 377) and adultery.In the case of adultery, he argued quashing the law was in order, but it was “very badly worded” and the court strayed far when when it said these are personal wrongs and not public wrongs and therefore outside the jurisdiction of criminal law. “Now will it cover bigamy and polygamy also? Will it cover cruelty? Will it cover dowry offences — if this was the case, the judgment would be wholly anti women,” he said. He said the judgment may change the Indian family system into a western family system where fragility of marriages may increase.On the verdict decriminalising Section 377, he disagreed with it calling sexuality as part of free speech. “When you convert this into a fundamental right and say it is free speech then how do you restrain any form of sexual activity — homosexual or bisexual— in a school hostel, prison, army frontier,” Jaitley said.