WTF!!! Are you kidding? That’s my first reaction to the news.
Today, Supreme Court turns the clock back and
added one more feather to our hypocrisy. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi,
upheld the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and
put the ball in Parliament’s court. Being a guy in India is a crime.
It can be un-natural, it can be un-ethical,
it can be against a religion, but it can’t be illegal, it can’t be a crime. What
is forbidden in religion need not be prohibited in law. Morality cannot be a
ground to restrict the fundamental rights of the citizens.
It’s a 21st century world; so we
need to think like that. If they love differently, you can’t steal away their
pleasure of loving some-one. It’s their personal decision; they can do whatever
they want to do with their body, their life as long as they are not hurting
anybody else.
On one side we are basking about our Mars
mission and on the other side we are behaving like an old class regressive society.
I was not expecting this from our well educated honorable judges of Supreme
Court. I would like to read your justification for this poor decision. Please
don’t bind people with such stupid laws, let them live their life on their own
terms. It’s a free country.
As a democratic country India should be a
pluralistic society but we are not. As Indians, we have all lost today. It is a
day of shame for independent India.
