Posted on 07/21/2006 1:50:32 PM PDT by DBeers
NEW DELHI, India, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has joined the efforts of activist organizations to decriminalize homosexual behaviour, saying the ban on homosexual activity is driving HIV/AIDS infections underground.
NACO, the regulatory government body responsible for efforts to control the spread of the infection, filed a statement in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday in support of a petition put forth by a local AIDS group that asks that the law against homosexual activity be lifted.
UNAID and other non-governmental organizations are also backing the decriminalization of homosexuality in India, suggesting that HIV/AIDS infection rates will increase as long as laws prohibit the gay lifestyle and drive men to risky sexual behaviour. India has the second highest infection rate in the world, with over five million people carrying the virus.
HIV/AIDS infection rates in Western nations which have decriminalized homosexuality, however, suggest the opposite may occur. Research has shown that infection rates are highest among members of the homosexual community in countries where homosexual activity is legal and educational material on “safe-sex” practices is readily available.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington reported in 2005 that HIV infection rates among homosexual men increased eight percent during one year alone, from 2003-2004.
In Canada, a 2004 report from Toronto showed a dramatic increase in HIV infection rates among the homosexual community, up 49% since 1988.
The Indian government has resisted efforts to decriminalize homosexual activity, saying the social climate of the country “does not favour” legalization.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
UN Tells India to Decriminalize Homosexual Sex to Fight AIDS
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06011307.html
Indian Government Fights Court Effort to Legalize Sodomy
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120805.html
NACO, the regulatory government body responsible for efforts to control the spread of the infection, filed a statement in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday in support of a petition put forth by a local AIDS group that asks that the law against homosexual activity be lifted.
More bizzare insight into the minds of the delusional and self-destructive...
AIDS: are they for it or against it?
Homosexuality is considered WRONG in India? What a shocker!
I thought that was only considered wrong by 'Bigoted right-wing Christians' and Bible thumpers who opposed homosexual behavior...
I'm confused.
I don't know how it works elsewhere but here in Georgia the sodomy laws effected everyone, gay, straight, single or married - way too much intrusion into private adult relations by the government.
Sounds like they are for it.. and for a lot more of it.
That's odd. I've lived most of my life in Georgia, and not once did "the government" intrude into my "private adult relations." Must not have hung with the right crowd, I suppose.
Why is there a 'Barf Alert' on this? Sodomy laws are, for the most part, unenforceable. Besides, there are stranger things going on in the bedrooms of America. Anyone who has 'explored' the Internet should know this.
There is lots of money in the AIDs field. Sounds like India is actually promoting what leads to a lot of the AIDS cases. Could it be Bill Gates millions that they are going for?
It would appear that the government primarily wishes to stop the spread of AIDS while the homosexual agenda activists are more concerned with seeking to "legitimize" the male homosexual method (anal sex) of spreading AIDS...
-this is more of the same...
>>That's odd. I've lived most of my life in Georgia, and not once did "the government" intrude into my "private adult relations." Must not have hung with the right crowd, I suppose.<<
I'm glad. Even today in Georgia a woman can't legally buy a vibrator - this idea that the government should be able to decide the most intimate details of private life is the perfect example of what conservatives should be fighting.
They are creating job security.
Back to work ...
Elsewhere, I am rooting for homosexuals. In the Arab world, they are becoming pestiferous to the Moslems, and undermining a whole host of onerous gender-based laws in the process.
Like in Egypt, 100 gay guys will have a party on a boat, and the police come and bust them, usually for holding a "gay marriage." However, things get funny from that point, because not only do all the men deny that they are gay, but act shocked, shocked!, that the police are busting them because they don't have any women at the party. That is, anti-Moslem mixing of the sexes, which is also probably against the law.
Needless to say, this is just as embarassing to the Egyptian courts the 15th time, as it was the 1st time. And the lesbians are even more annoying, which is funny.
As far as the Hindus go, I'm also in favor of just about anything that will undermine a lot of their old and grotesque customs. They are past overdue for social adjustment from some direction, so I suppose homosexuality is as good a reason as anything.
Who knows, maybe in twenty years, they'll be able to show pictures of women in bikinis in Bollywood movies?
Oh, my God, NO!!! You mean our vicious, backward state is denying women that basic human right! I'm shocked.
>>Oh, my God, NO!!! You mean our vicious, backward state is denying women that basic human right! I'm shocked.<<
Hopefully now that we have a Republican majority they will get around to fixing this.
Suggestion: Write a letter to your state representative and explain that you need electronic assistance to masturbate. I'm sure s/he will be glad to help you out.
>>Suggestion: Write a letter to your state representative and explain that you need electronic assistance to masturbate. I'm sure s/he will be glad to help you out.<<
That's not so much my point as limits on government intrusion - to come into the home and regulate intimiate personal behavior should require a very high level of public interest - and I don't see that here.
the Team America aids song is playing in my head now.
Committing homosexual acts(unnatural acts) is a punishable offence in India according to the Indian Penal Code(1860).You can be a homosexual & say have a live-in relationship with another person,but can't marry or engage in acts which are likely to be detected.It sounds very weird.The IPC was framed by the British & critics of the anti-homosexuality provision says that it reflects Victorian sensibilities,though they conveniently forget that most hindus abhor such perversity.
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