ON GAY SEX, INDIA HAS ASSUMED AN ANCIENT POSITION. READ THE KAMA SUTRA

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"The overturning of a British-era law criminalising gay sex is not India modernising – it is returning to the liberal stance shown throughout its mythology and history"

... the Kama Sutra recognizes homosexual marriage as “a union of love and cohabitation, without the need for parental approval”.

Varuna and Mitra were two gods depicted as a “same-sex couple” in ancient Indian scripture, always shown side-by-side. The religious text Shatapatha Brahmana mentions them as personifications of two half-moons implanting their seed in each other as the moon waxes and wanes.

Indeed, homosexual sex is mentioned without embarrassment: homosexuals and the “third gender” were widely accepted identities.

India’s ancient Hindu civilization was predicated on the idea not just of tolerance but of acceptance of difference. This is what made it both appropriate and paradoxical that the (Indian) Supreme Court judgment on Section 377, written by Chief Justice Misra, cites the words “I am what I am. So, take me as I am.”

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2164299/gay-sex-india-has-assumed-ancient-position-read-kama-sutra

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1. Follow up story (evil religion)

Mizoram : Leaders of 14 Churches reject Supreme Court order order on Section 377

While the country is celebrating the historic Supreme Court judgement to decriminalise Homosexuality, the Churches in Mizoram have “rejected” the apex court’s ruling on Article 377.

A congregation of 14 major churches in the state, Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee, on Monday has said that it wished the apex court had never scrapped Section 377.

The leaders of the Church stated that homosexuality, lesbianism should continue to be criminalised as it was in the past.

In Meghalaya, the Church has said, “What is legal is not equal to moral acceptability. The Catholic Church and many others hold that homosexual behaviour, between consenting adults, is morally unacceptable because it violates the purpose of human sexuality which is procreation and union of love fulfilled in the loving union of man and woman marriage,” a document from the office of Justice, Peace and Development of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India.

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