India: Gay Sex Illegal

12th December 2013


NEW DELHI — The Indian Supreme Court reinstated on Wednesday a colonial-era law banning gay sex, ruling that it had been struck down improperly by a lower court.


The 1861 law, which imposes a 10-year sentence for “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with man, woman or animal,” was ruled unconstitutional in a 2009 decision. But the Supreme Court held that only Parliament had the power to change that law.

There is almost no chance that Parliament will act where the Supreme Court did not, advocates and opponents of the law agreed. With the Bharatiya Janata Party, a conservative Hindu nationalist group, appearing in ascendancy before national elections in the spring, the prospect of any legislative change in the next few years is highly unlikely, analysts said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/world/asia/court-restores-indias-ban-on-gay-sex.html?_r=2&

And your view on it Andy?

Sassy wrote:And your view on it Andy?

The silence speaks volumes doesn't it!

Doesn't it just!

Not exactly an opinion.

Says things better than I could.

Please stop being so confrontational when there is clearly no need to be.

Why is asking for your opinion on a topic that you started confrontational? Surely, as you started the topic you have an opinion? If so, why so shy about giving it?

Being gay in India is deemed a very bad thing. I feel sorry for any gay people living there, they must be very frightened.

I agree Lovebug. The Australian decision can be overturned, this one is less likely to be and takes India backwards. As you say, very frightening for gay people who live there.

It's an absolutely awful decision which has been taken by the Indian government and one which will hopefully be overturned in the near future.
One also hopes that the equally disturbing Australian decision will be overturned.

My husband agrees with my thoughts that the Indian ruling will remain in place for the foreseeable future,much to my annoyance I hasten to say while the Australian ruling will be overturned.

The BJP are just like the BNP here in the UK. If they want their country to move forward this law will not be helping them.

Yep, every country has it's bigots.

Sassy wrote:Yep, every country has it's bigots.

Which can be comforting in an odd way, I guess. We certainly have a lot of prize bigots here in America, but the idea of banning homosexuality outright here has been a fringe view for some time, since well before the majority of Americans supported marriage equality.

Some people feel threatened by anything that is not part of their own lives and they don't understand.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Sassy wrote:Yep, every country has it's bigots.

Which can be comforting in an odd way, I guess. We certainly have a lot of prize bigots here in America, but the idea of banning homosexuality outright here has been a fringe view for some time, since well before the majority of Americans supported marriage equality.

What a quaint way of looking at marriage as my husband is perfectly equal to me,as long as the twit does as I say.

Wasn't Ben talking about marriage equality vis a vis men marrying men and woman marrying woman equal to men marrying women?

Sassy wrote:Wasn't Ben talking about marriage equality vis a vis men marrying men and woman marrying woman equal to men marrying women?

I positively will not be speaking to you until you apologise for attacking me elsewhere.

What? Where?

Sassy wrote:What?   Where?  

So sorry and do please forget what I said as I am new to this type of forum which is not soley business orientated.

No worries.

Sassy wrote:No worries.

Thanks and I'll try to adjust my temper as it's been a long week so far and at times I think I'm surrounded by cretins.

£BILLION£ wrote:

Sassy wrote:What?   Where?  

So sorry and do please forget what I said as I am new to this type of forum which is not soley business orientated.

How did you find out about this forum, did someone business orientated mention it to you   

the aussie one is not quite so bad as the Indian one, they can still have sex just not get married (again  )
it is hard to get momentum for it here, because legally marraige doesn't mean a lot. de factos have all the same rights as married couple so a gay couple doesn't even need to a have a civil service to get the rights (besides the piece of paper that saya married) that a hetrosexual couple have. If you have a live together relationship for more than 6 months in the eyes of the law you become de factos and get to lay claim to each other stuff (plus taxation things and all the rest, but it is 'the half the stuff' thing that most straight guys worry about    )

But this is like the 3rd time and each time it gets a little closer to being not overturned. so hopefully soon

That's interesting Veya, because here couples living together have no rights, even if they have lived together for years, as some women have found out to their cost.

yep thats why they made the law, to proctect women.

Plus we are so Multicultural now that tradional marriage laws weren't keeping up with all the variations, this at least gives everyone some cover.

Good idea.

Catman wrote:

£BILLION£ wrote:

Sassy wrote:What?   Where?  

So sorry and do please forget what I said as I am new to this type of forum which is not soley business orientated.

How did you find out about this forum, did someone business orientated mention it to you   

Catty I do love your avatar as it's so quaint.Does it resemble you in any way? And no darling none of my business associates use silly forums like this as we tend to frequent business equivalents as a means of dealing in finance privately.But I don't suppose you would understand the meaning of that,silly me.

To make it simple for you darling I found it while trawling the net.