377 different arguments
Topix Gay News Sep 26 08
Speaking to a packed Delhi High Court room on Friday, the additional solicitor general, P.P. Malhotra, said: "Legalising homosexuality will increase the spread of AIDS." Just a week earlier, the Union health minister - and qualified doctor - Anbumani Ramadoss publicly stated that de-criminalising homosexuality would, in fact, help prevent the spread of AIDS.
Permitting sex between consensual adults seems a task for a just-demised-theocracy newly empowering its citizens, not an established liberal democracy like India. But the evil that some men do seems to live on. Drafted by Lord Macaulay in 1860, with Victorian certainty, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalises "carnal intercourse against the order of nature". Full story...
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