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BJP leaders on homosexuality: ‘Can’t be supported’ to ‘nothing unnatural’
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In 2013, the Supreme Court reversed the Delhi Elevated Court’s verdict in Suresh Koushal vs Union of India, which said that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code cannot punish sex between two consenting adults, reasoning that Parliament can decriminalise homosexuality but not the court.
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In the aftermath of that judgment, Rajnath Singh, now the Defence Minister, gave an interview on December 15, 2013, in which he said, “We assist Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an unnatural act and cannot be supported.”
Current Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had also welcomed the 2013 verdict. Adityanath, at the time a Lok Sabha MP, told reporters outside Parliament that he was opposed to any move to decriminalise homosexuality.
But, in a tweet in 2013, Piyush Goyal, now a Union minister, had spoken in favour of decriminalisation. “There’s nothing ‘unnatural’ in these relationships and I hope the subject is reviewed/law amended at the earliest,” he tweeted dur
Whether forming the National Council for Transsexual Persons or amending the law to allow transgender people to inherit ancestral agricultural land or dedicating a metro station to LGBT community by approving that all employees at the metro station to be transgender or setting up India’s first university for the transgender community, Modi-Yogi duo is taking all substantial spirited initiatives to authorize LGBT community in a real sense.
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For two months, the Delhi High Court waited for India’s Central government to share their views on the recognition of same-sex marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act in India. But as was expected by several members of India’s LGBTQ+ group in India including me, the Centre last week replied through an affidavit, “Living together as partners and having sexual relationship by same sex individuals [which is decriminalised now] is not comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children which necessarily presuppose a biological man as a ‘husband’, a biological woman as a ‘wife’ and the children born out of the union between the two.” Classy. They did a similar thing during the IPC Section 377 hearing as well.
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After the Supreme Court in 2013 reversed the Delhi High Court’s decision saying Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code cannot punish sex between two consenting adults, reasoning that Parliament can decriminalise homosexuality but not the court, Rajnath Singh, now the Defence Minister, said in an interview, “We support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an unnatural execute and cannot be supported.”
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Current Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, then a Lok Sabha MP, also welcomed the 2013 judgment and said he was opposed to any shift to decriminalise homosexuality.
But among the BJP leaders who took a different stance was Piyush Goyal, now a Union minister. In 2013, he spoke in favour of decriminalisation. “There’s nothing ‘unnatural’ in these relationships and I aspire the subject is reviewed/law amended at the earliest,” he tweeted during an interaction with some Twitter users.
The late Arun Jaitley said at the Times LitFest