[“A provision of law branding one section of people as criminal based wholly on states’ moral disapproval of that class goes counter to equality guaranteed in the Constitution. We declare section 377 of Indian Penal Code in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private is violative of Articles 21, 14, and 15 of the Constitution.”
Delhi HC has come up with a historic judgement legalizing gay sex.
This blog is an opinion, not a debate as it may seem. I want to express my opinion of some of the counters which emerged out after the law was passed. No offences to any one.]
The Times Of India reads – “Gays are sick people, they should be send to hospitals”, Swami Ramdev. On behalf of the whole nation, I sincerely submit a humble request Swami ji to kindly frame some scintillating Yoga techniques which can “cure” these diseased people called gays. There were times when you advocated not going to hospitals thrusting that Yoga alone can solve a man’s uttersome miseries. Come on Swami ji, not just Gayness, I would also request to frame out some solution to the fatal problem of AIDS in the world. You are world famous I suppose. (Ofcourse, this was quite an out-of-context point introduced by me!)
How and why gays are sick people, he didn’t answer.
I am a decent fan of Swami Ramdev u know, for all his Yoga techniques which have cured millions worldwide. There is a difference between fan and follower. I am a follower to no one in this world, coz everyone has got some excellence and some of the rubbish sides.
Lalu Yadav too jumps into the cradle, saying that he is firmly against this order of Delhi HC. Why, came no answer, he repeats the same lines again and again.
Certain points have emerged in recent days.
“It is against all religions”.
Text would say “God doesn’t allow such phenomenon”. For all religious associations who have come up opposing the judgement, can you please let us talk to your God, so that we can ask him for a reason then. The judiciary is already convinced, the nation is getting convinced everyday, we are confident that your God will get convinced too.
God himself wasn’t writing these scripts, was he? There must be some sort of author or rule maker who had, in collaboration with many, framed the ancient religious manuscripts. Definitely there are things valid and justified in them, but is it true for everything they mention? You don’t follow rules framed by today’s judiciary which are meant for today’s world, for today’s people and for the futuristic vision but you walk ahead to follow legislations written in religions which were framed thousands of years ago. Even that is not justified if one looks, coz LGBTs ( Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders) are existing in this world right from the very existence. This is not a biological species which has got sprouted in a decade or so.
If someone believes in religion, he must also believe in religious stories! Lord Krishna had 16,100 queens (this is official number, mind it. Governments often hide the statistics). Numerous times, he incarnated as a woman, had sex with a king, gave birth to a heir and revived back to his original. Likes of Indra didn’t quite often show “morality” in that sense, for he often became a frog in a pond of bathing beauties and several disguising characters just on account of his lust. This is in reference to Hinduism. When we have accepted these anecdotes in our religion considering them as acts of a God, whats the issue with gays then.
“It is a crime.”
Sex is not a crime. Intimacy is not a crime. There should be a Fundamental Right of Sex too.
“It is against Indian Culture.”
For years, daily we get to hear the phrase Indian Culture. Alas, Indian Culture hasn’t got any documented constitution of its own. If there had been one, there would have been no debates on words like morality or culture or tradition. If LGBTs are against Indian culture, then they must be against each and every other culture of the world, coz its not that they are unevenly distributed in just some parts of the world. We have seen gays in movies as Englishmen doesn’t mean that we don’t have them in India. In India, we have hidden gays, coz till date it has been illegal and a crime to be a gay.
“It is unnatural and against nature.”
If sex is unnatural, than it’s a new shocking discovery for me. I don’t know if any constitution has defined sex as a male-female intercourse. Nature doesn’t say that a man has to be private with a woman only. If a man feels like going that way with another man or a woman going private with another woman, it is still “natural”. Still if we believe in intercourse as natural, likes of Ganeshji (for religious people who are against LSBTs) haven’t been born through natural means.
Whatever we feel to do, it is natural.
“It will affect society in an adverse way.”
What two men or two women are doing in a bedroom is definitely not going to “affect” the society, forget in an adverse manner. Having a gay or a lesbian between us in a market place isn’t going to affect the society except for a few curious glances across them. Dostana proved out to be a family movie, we are no more passive with kids regarding gays (Of course, a movie on lesbians wont be watches by families coz of promising exposure ………… Girlfriend was a big flop).
From today, a particular person would feel free to accept that he is a gay. Because he is no more a criminal in the eyes of judiciary. It would take time for the country to adjust. We need to understand that there is nothing to be afraid of a gay or a lesbian. It will take time when we will have them recognized be their name and not merely by this sheepish adjective called LSBT. It will take time for this hitherto sidelined and tiraskrit section of our society to understand their responsibility of not stooping to frustration or obscenity which may harm the society.
Lets welcome the new legislation.
Lets be Happy and GAY.
Next blog soon.
Snehil Basoya.
[ Comments are welcome! However, I wont be countering comments this time (I never do that 😛 ). Once I give my point again, you write again, and the debate can go for years. I have really got sick of debates in recent times. I have started believing in giving opinion for once and finish it off. Coz I think there is no point discussing something which cant have a conclusion, one side has to withdraw for a conclusion. I don’t know whether my philosophy is correct or not, what I know is that I am currently happy with such frame of mind.
Please post your opinion.]
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