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India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex in historic ruling
NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Thursday overturned a 157-year-old law criminalizing gay sex in a landmark victory for gay rights in the world’s largest democracy.   Â
A panel of five judges issued a unanimous judgment striking down the provision and affirming the right to equality and dignity.
“Respect for individual choice is the essence of liberty,” Dipak Misra, India’s chief justice, told a packed courtroom. “This freedom can only be fulfilled when each of us realizes that the LGBT community possesses equal rights.”
Activists have struggled for more than a decade to invalidate Section 377 of the Indian penal code, a provision that dates to the colonial era. The law prohibited consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.”Â
The Washington Post, September 6, 2018
Sitting here laughing at the old fashioned language.... "Carnal intercourse against the order of nature" hahahahahaha!!