Sabarimala temple: Should religious sentiments be supreme or gender equality and women’s rights?

Days after the Supreme Court in a historic judgement lifted the centuries-old ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age into the Sabarimala temple in kerala. Two petitions were filed today in the top court challenging that judgement. The Nair service society a body of Kerala's influential Nair community is one of the petitioners their argument? I quote ‘no legal luminary, not even the greatest of jurists or a judge can be a match to the common sense and wisdom of the masses ,no judicial pronouncement even of the highest judicial tribunal in this country’. Can be a match for the voice of the people” representatives of the Sabarimala Temple's chief priest skipped a meeting called by the Kerala chief minister today that’s because they’re upset with the left govt’s decision not to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against this verdict. All this comes against the backdrop of massive protests that have been taking place across Kerala against the top court’s ruling thousands of people including women have taken to the streets and held protest marches. One devotee group has even issued a threat saying hundreds of its members will lie down at the entrance of the Sabarimala Temple to stop women of menstruating age from entering. When the temple re-opens on October 17 in Thiruvananthapuram, BJP activists organised a protest march to the office of the tourism and Devaswom Minister of Kerala. The march was led by the BJP state president. The question we’re asking on the show tonight is this while people in a democracy have the right to stage peaceful protests should anybody be issuing threats to physically block the entry of women from the Sabarimala temple? Isn’t it downright dangerous for anyone to say that they don’t care about the verdict of the highest court of the land and will not allow its implementation? Are many people confusing the issue of women’s rights and gender equality with religion? Should religious sentiments and practices be supreme or gender equality and women’s rights? And if the highest court of the land cannot have the last word on an issue pertaining to the fundamental right of a large section of society then who will?