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Justifying Gay Rights
Justifying Gay Rights
There is much hubbub around the recent Delhi High Court
judgment legalizing same sex between consenting adults and partially sticking down Section 377 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
This change finds much reverence among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community and more animosity from those against it, the Church and Baba Ramdev to name a couple, (usually ones who have plans perpetually afoot to preach their doctrines on the course of a model life). This time around, stepping into preaching on the course of nature they may find themselves venturing in unfamiliar territory…as it appears. And then the others who care to float about un-opinionated at the risk of being politically complacent. I don’t wish to nudge them from their comfort.
However, there is a sizeable straight population strictly complying with the course of nature and as God intended, who believe that the rights of the LGBT must be recognized and welcome the Delhi High Court Judgment ad care two hoots about Baba Ramdev and his ilk, considering some of their colourful chronicles.
Now it is apparent that there are two sides to this discussion and I must impress that this move in Delhi has started a massive debate around coffee tables and beer bars. I like to think and rightly so that the populace of young and the opinionated who agreeably have to live with this boon or omen of a judgment form chunks of coffee and beer drinkers and thus them.Whether the opinions of the well informed / ill informed debaters is right / correct is not the subject here, although I admit sheepishly that I had formed my opinion a decade earlier. To inform you, I have been asked not be subjective at all and in consequence I shall just present a few discussions enabling the avid unsuspecting reader’s perfectly objective mind to swing the right way (no pun intended).
On the floor today:
“Who the hell is Baba Ramdev?”
This was the most popular query…..the questions weren’t always sarcastic….sincere at times.
“Can he really make straight out of queer?”
“That would amount to a scientific marvel, don’t you think?
“Why does the Church have a problem with everything?”
“That’s true…..the Vatican seems unperturbed…..but the Indian Diaspora’s always intrusive….The fiasco revolving around “The Da Vinci Code”….wasn’t banned by the Vatican but the Church in India.”
“Is it permitted to speak of the “Kamasutra?” …..Not until another country claims origin over it……at all other material times the Kamasutra tarnishes our cultural history.”
“I think gays should have a separate locality to live else the disease would spread…..” His community of imbeciles has ex-communicated him since.
From the other side:
My favorite being Baba Ramdev said,
“Homosexuality is a disease that is curable. Right to privacy as a facet of right to life cannot include the right to enjoy deviant sexual preferences and sexual behaviour.”
What’s the connection with Celina Jaitley though?
He went on to do bright things for our country by challenging the Delhi High Court’s judgment before the Supreme Court of India as chairman of Bharat Swabhiman Trust.
The Church feels that homosexuality is against the Indian culture and that they would oppose it and since our country is a democratic one, there is no way that this can be legalised through legislation.
A democratic country did you say…..???? Stand up for something more significant.
Muslim leaders have also stood up in mutiny
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, a prominent body of the Muslim community say that this move would create “sexual anarchy” in the society.
Polygamy wasn’t sexual anarchy then?
The judgment of the Delhi High Court is not intruding into the personal religious laws. It is simply setting at motion the right to equality of LGBTs. Section 377 of the Criminal Penal Code is an archaic law and not competent and consistent with an ever evolving society. Not that the presence of the LGBT community is a sudden evolution but the fact that the rights of a citizen of India cannot be recognized is in itself against the guarantee that out sovereign state made. Infact one could view it as a belated change. Gays and lesbians have been in existence since time immemorial. Some prominent persons from history were gay. Oscar Wilde, W.H. Auden, Marlon Brando and Leonardo Da Vinci whose works the Church hangs in complete esteem.
I am not an agnostic but I condemn making religion a basis of every protest. A successful debate needs the participation of person who can think freely shredded of all doubts and maladies such as blind faith and unreasonable beliefs.
A debate around anything that may sometimes seem starkly unconventional is in itself conventional. I particularly remember the movie “Inherit the Wind” which portrayed an actual case involving a teacher who taught Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. The Church condemned the theory holding it was against the teachings of the Bible. The teacher could not be prosecuted……”I didn’t come here to make this town different. I came here to defend this man’s right to be different”. The defence counsel argued.
And today it is taught in schools also run by the Church. Change is inevitable.
In conclusion, we must arrest the fact that no religious leader can impose upon human mind an unreasonable reason.
“Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding.” Henry Drummond – Inherit the Wind.
