{"id":28313,"date":"2018-10-24T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28313"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:20:31","slug":"accept-gay-relationships-says-sc-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/accept-gay-relationships-says-sc-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Accept gay relationships, says SC judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/accept-gay-relationships-says-sc-judge\/article24447366.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accept gay relationships, says SC judge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court hearing on a plea to strike down Section 377 of IPC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Important facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>2. Section 377:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 377 of IPC \u2014 which came into force in 1862 \u2014 defines unnatural offences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It says, \u201cWhoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is rooted in the legacies of British colonial states where in it was introduced by Lord Macaulay in 1860 as a part of IPC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the section \u201cWhoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homosexual intercourse was made a criminal offense under\u00a0Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2. While clearing its signal for decriminalizing gay sex, the apex court has made following arguments:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acceptance of gay relationship will help meet health concerns and control of HIV.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Same sex couples living in denial with no access to medical care were more prone to contracting and spreading sexually transmitted diseases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The course of sexually transmitted disease is not sexual intercourse, but unprotected sexual intercourse.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accept gay relationships, says SC judge News: The Supreme Court hearing on a plea to strike down Section 377 of IPC. Important facts: 2. Section 377: Section 377 of IPC \u2014 which came into force in 1862 \u2014 defines unnatural offences. It says, \u201cWhoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/accept-gay-relationships-says-sc-judge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accept gay relationships, says SC judge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704729830},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}