[Reader-list] Voices against HC Judgement emerge

[Ravi Agarwal]

Dear all,
I shall be grateful if someone can explain to me:
1. Difference between 'de criminalizing ' and 'legalising?
2. Now that the HC has read down 377, what is the amendment required by the
Govt? except to shift the remaining provisions under 377 to another place as
suggested by the HC order itself.  But will this impact the provision struck
down.
3. I understand the SC can strike down the HC order (which is very strongly
argued and hence not easy to strike down, I think.) But beyond going to the
SC what is the govt reqired to do?

I will thank you for some clear understanding to help me.

Best
ravi agarwal




On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Religious leaders have no right to threaten govts. Anyway, who cares about
> these. I feel we should have a referendum to find out whether these
> so-called hoodlums have any backing from the society, for that will be the
> end of their useless positions and their right to take 'decisions on behalf
> of the community'. The religious leaders should first go and study their
> own
> religious texts and books before making useless comments. And anyways,
> religious leaders should be thankful we are a liberal democracy, otherwise
> if we were secular by Western standards, their useless antics would have
> earned them the ire of the state (as Sarkozy showed recently by declaring
> that Muslim women would not be allowed to wear the veil. Where are these
> leaders then to raise their voice? In toilets?)
>
> The right to existence of people is beyond religion, and people came before
> religion. And people's rights are more important than such religious
> rights.
> Therefore, the govt. has the responsibility to accept this HC verdict and
> annul the IPC 377 which prohibits homosexuality. And if the govt. wants to
> appease the religious leaders, they should remember the 1987 scenario, when
> both the Muslim and Hindu communities were sought to be appeased, and what
> happened after that.
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