http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/03/india-court-ruling-decriminalizes-gay-sex/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:24:11 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/03/india-court-ruling-decriminalizes-gay-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-1608352 Global Voices Online » South Asia: Looking Back At 2009 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:24:46 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=83196#comment-1608352 [...] the other hand there was a triumph of human rights as an Indian court ruling decriminalized gay sex and a blogger termed the day of the ruling as a big day in the history of independent [...] [...] the other hand there was a triumph of human rights as an Indian court ruling decriminalized gay sex and a blogger termed the day of the ruling as a big day in the history of independent [...]

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/03/india-court-ruling-decriminalizes-gay-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-1571798 Akhtar Javed Usmani Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:06:59 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=83196#comment-1571798 The acts of homosexuality are in scriptures of Konark and Khajuraho. The story of Gaznavi and Ayaz the slave is in Urdu poetry. In Egypt and with the ancient stories of ancient Israel and almost in ever civilisations it was present. It is the Jail, Juvenile or other wise and in barracks as U S A has to recognise it and every where as a biological need or as psychological console. God should not come in between. The Indian society does not approve of it so was every other society. But some states realized that the homosexuality amongst human can not be wished away. It was always there and stays. The only question remains about it, is its acceptance. No doubt it is odd, but it is human too. Honourable Justice Michel Kirby, AC, CMG High Court of Australia while delivering key note address at Kuala Lumpur in April 2002 during the workshop on Judicial accountability organised by Commonwealth Lawyer Association observed that, “The criminalisation of homosexual acts, even when performed in private by consenting adults reflected, in part, understandings of religious texts. But it also reflected a general ignorance about the causes and incidence of homosexuality in every society. After the research of Alfred Kinsley and other scientist in 1940s and 1950, it became evident that, in the human species, as in other mammals, a small proportion of the population is irreversibly and exclusively homosexual by sexual orientation. The percentage is probably about 4% in males somewhat less in females. It is not a \choice\ or a \lifestyle\, selected by a few stubborn people selected by stubborn people to defy the society. It is part of the person's being: just as skin colour, gender or other imprints of nature\. Strong advocacy went on describing the homos as minority. What is needed is amendment in section 377 of IPC, on lines above about consenting adults in private. There were forced acts, sodomized of the children; it must be punished more rigorously. The acts of homosexuality are in scriptures of Konark and Khajuraho. The story of Gaznavi and Ayaz the slave is in Urdu poetry. In Egypt and with the ancient stories of ancient Israel and almost in ever civilisations it was present. It is the Jail, Juvenile or other wise and in barracks as U S A has to recognise it and every where as a biological need or as psychological console. God should not come in between. The Indian society does not approve of it so was every other society. But some states realized that the homosexuality amongst human can not be wished away. It was always there and stays. The only question remains about it, is its acceptance. No doubt it is odd, but it is human too. Honourable Justice Michel Kirby, AC, CMG High Court of Australia while delivering key note address at Kuala Lumpur in April 2002 during the workshop on Judicial accountability organised by Commonwealth Lawyer Association observed that, “The criminalisation of homosexual acts, even when performed in private by consenting adults reflected, in part, understandings of religious texts. But it also reflected a general ignorance about the causes and incidence of homosexuality in every society. After the research of Alfred Kinsley and other scientist in 1940s and 1950, it became evident that, in the human species, as in other mammals, a small proportion of the population is irreversibly and exclusively homosexual by sexual orientation. The percentage is probably about 4% in males somewhat less in females. It is not a \choice\ or a \lifestyle\, selected by a few stubborn people selected by stubborn people to defy the society. It is part of the person’s being: just as skin colour, gender or other imprints of nature\.
Strong advocacy went on describing the homos as minority. What is needed is amendment in section 377 of IPC, on lines above about consenting adults in private. There were forced acts, sodomized of the children; it must be punished more rigorously.

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