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   Back in December, India made it a crime to be gay.  There have   
   been some updates, not all together good.  For faggots.   
      
   Specifically, a Division Bench ruling from India’s Supreme Court   
   reinstated Section 377 of its penal code, a British Victorian /   
   Raj-era law from the mid 1800s that outlawed homosexuality,   
   making it a felony offense and subject to fines and prison   
   sentences of up to ten years to life.   
      
   In a devastating ruling for gay rights supporters, India’s   
   Supreme Court on Wednesday, December, 11, 2013, overturned an   
   earlier 2009 Delhi High Court ruling which had struck down   
   India’s existing anti-sodomy law.   
      
   That earlier ruling had effectively decriminalized “homosexual   
   acts” (i.e., gay sex of any kind).  The new ruling   
   recriminalizes homosexuality in a country of one billion people.   
      
   In the Supreme Court Division Bench ruling, the court said it   
   was up to the legislature to change the law, and not for the   
   courts to overturn it. Civil rights groups blasted this   
   rationale, because they feel — as do many others — that it’s up   
   to the courts to serve as guarantors for people’s rights, and   
   not an Indian legislature that is often as paralyzed as   
   America’s Congress.   
      
   In short, after four years of it being legal to be gay, lesbian,   
   or bisexual in India, their Supreme Court re-criminalized it.   
   And the world’s largest democracy (by population) re-joins 76   
   other nations in legalized repression of lesbian, gay, bisexual   
   and transgender (LGBT) people.   
      
   Well, on Tuesday, 28 January, the Indian Supreme Court in what   
   appears to be another Division Bench ruling, has declined to   
   review the ban they reimposed. The two judges who heard the   
   case, Justices H. L. Dattu and S. J. Mukhopadhaya, rejected the   
   petition from India’s government’s lawyers.   
      
   http://americablog.com/2014/01/indias-supreme-court-stands-   
   ruling-re-criminalizing-homosexuality.html   
      
   Stay the fuck out of India, faggots.   
      
       
      
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