Noted yoga exponent Baba Ramdev moved the Supreme Court with a special leave petition challenging the recent Delhi HC judgment decriminalising gay sex between two consenting adults. The plea advanced Ramdev’s view that “homosexuality is a disease that is curable” and went on to quote a Spanish psychiatrist who also held the same view. “Right to privacy as a facet of right to life cannot include the right to enjoy deviant sexual preferences and sexual behaviour. The HC erred in striking down the provisions of Section 377 insofar as it penalises consensual unnatural sex act of adults in private by proceeding on the basis of changing moral values and norms, and ignoring the fundamental constitutional principles of judicial restraint.” Despite the National AIDS Control Organisation’s view in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, Ramdev felt it would put a large chunk of the population in the danger of contracting the disease.
2 comments:
How many gay cases did he handle ever? How many did he cure?
India is not a theocracy. Thank God! And religion is not the basis of the Indian constitution and therefore it cannot hold hostage the rights of minorities, no matter how "immoral" they appear to be. Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism, and alternate sexualities existed in India long before the British came and "puritanized" its colonies. Lets not be slaves yet once again to these outmoded, unnatural and tyrannical laws and ideas.
Even if gay sex was a choice, it still falls under the purview of the Indian Constitution and the only response can be of equal treatment under the law.
To deny over 10% of any country's population, that pays their taxes, wants family life (and isn't against it) and want the right to live it without interference in their bedrooms (as consenting adults) is gross injustice and must be addressed.
And morality isn't the property of religious people only. It is immoral to ask people to lie about and hide their sexuality, to force marriage to the opposite sex (which only leads people to cheat on their spouse), to not be educated about safe-sex, to be ashamed of who they are born as. The first thing each of us must strive to do is, "To thine own self be true." A happy individual makes for a happy society.
Whether it be Baba Ramdev or other Hindu pundits, the Akal Takht, maulvis, the Catholic church or even the politicians who wish it were different, this is about human rights and dignity. Justice must be served.
Post a Comment