Why India should legalize gay marriage
As we know, until July 02, 2009 homosexuality was a crime in India under section 377. Delhi high court decriminalized sexual intercourse between two consenting adults. On one hand this verdict can be considered as a temporary relief for the gay community in India. The main reason to consider this as temporary is because till now the ruling UPA government did not have a strong stand in the issue.
Few years back our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that legalizing homosexuality will not be appreciated in India as we are culturally very different society. Contrastingly the then Health minister under his government, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss advocated to decriminalize homosexuality but he faced stern opposition from the home ministry. Even now after Delhi high court’s verdict no one from the ministry gave direct support to the LGBT community. Today the government is like a cat on a wall on this issue.
Homosexuality is mainly opposed in India in the name of culture and religion. Coming to India’s culture, is it possible to define what exactly Indian culture is? We have different culture, different people, different way of life etc. There is no single pan Indian culture in which every Indian can fall into. And religion, why do religion come into the picture in a secular country while making law?
Legalizing homosexuality is in no way going to affect religion. We have Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Marriage Act, Christian Marriage Act and Parsee Marriage and Divorce Act. And there is special marriage act, 1954. As per the current marriage acts a person can get married as per the marriage act of their faith they belong to or under special marriage act. How on earth will it affect their religious freedom or religion. There is going to be no change in their marriage law even if a new marriage act is introduced, LGBT marriage act.
Apart from culture, religion, homophobia, ignorance, bigotry there is no other reason as “Why India should not legalize gay marriage”.Indian culture has always celebrated queerness. If you think your religion is going to be affected because of gays, stop preaching to gays, you can preach only to people who fall into your protocol. And human rights records of religious organizations are not always satisfactory. If you are homophobic, you can get treatment for phobia. If you are ignorant about homosexuality visit the LGBT counseling center near your house. If you are bigoted, then ‘off.
There are many instances where we broke the cultural and religious protocol when we realized that they are gross mistake, now its again time to make another mistake disappear. Reasons to legalize gay marriage are not limited and our law makers should be fair to everyone who are reasonable. Baseless, bigotry, homophobic and religious oriented arguments against the LGBT community should not be considered. And those who feel that the LGBT community should not be marginalized should not shy away from talking.
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