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India: Court Ruling Decriminalizes Gay Sex :: Elites TV — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:10:31 +0000

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Global Voices Online » India: Court Ruling Decriminalizes Gay Sex — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:30:12 +0000

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By: kuffir

kuffir — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:19:23 +0000

suriya,

thanks for that bit of info. and thank you also for that insightful post.

By: Suriya Subramanian

Suriya Subramanian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:15:52 +0000

Thanks for linking to my blog. I’d like to draw attention to the part of the ruling, which I think is the most important, but no one is talking about.

The court did not just decriminalize homosexuality, but they went way ahead and offered people protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

We hold that sexual orientation is a ground analogous to sex and that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is not permitted by Article 15. Further, Article 15(2) incorporates the notion of horizontal application of rights. In other words, it even prohibits discrimination of one citizen by another in matters of access to public spaces. In our view, discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation is impermissible even on the horizontal application of the right enshrined under Article 15.