SRINAGAR - A two-day seminar themed “Theories of Islamic Law: The methodology of Ijtihad” held in Srinagar discussed the issue of homosexuality among other social problems faced by present-day society.
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Conditional victoryDaily News & AnalysisHe declares in court that after just six days of study he had come to the conclusion that gay sex causes HIV (and hence the need to maintain the Section 377 .
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Will India accept gay couples?Reuters BlogsSome see the ruling as crucial for the country's battle against HIV/AIDS.
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Gay sex ruling will help HIV/AIDS preventionTimes of India... court ruling decriminalising homosexuality and alleged the Victorian-era law that banned gay sex had been used to stifle HIV/AIDS prevention in India.
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This is incredible news, as Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code has been repealed in the world's second most populous country.
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I still have an hard time knowing that being who I am will make me a criminal in some countries. But today our friends from India can celebrate since a court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act [source] The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence".
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Another 1 billion people on the planet are free to have gay sex. The high court in Delhi, India ruled yesterday that gay sex between consenting adults was legal.
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An Indian court Thursday ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law which bans homosexual sex.
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