The Supreme Court in India is expected to hear a petition challenging decriminalisation of homosexuality.
AFP reports:
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing more than a dozen petitions filed to overturn a 2009 ruling that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults.
Homosexuality was ruled lawful three years ago by a Delhi High Court order that declared the colonial-era ban was unconstitutional, in a decision hailed by gay activists but which also triggered a volley of protests.
Muslim and Hindu leaders and groups campaigning for child protection said in a submission to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that gay and lesbian sex was “against God and creation.”
Judges G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya heard arguments by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), a government organisation that called the 2009 court ruling “erroneous.”
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