PRESS TRUST OF INDIA - New Delhi: Gay sex is immmoral [sic] and a reflection of a perverse (rpt perverse) mind and its decriminalisation would lead to moral degradation of society, the Centre today told the Delhi High Court.
"Homosexuality is a social vice and the state has the power to contain it," the government contended.
"It (decriminalising homosexuality) may create breach of peace. If it is allowed then evils of AIDS and HIV would further spread and harm the people. It would lead to big health hazard. It would degrade moral values of society," Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra contended.
The Centre's stand assumes significance in view of the contradictory stand taken by two of its ministries, with the Home Ministry opposing decriminalisation of such acts while the Health Ministry favouring the scrapping of penal provisions which provide a punishment of upto [sic] life sentence for homosexual acts. Gay Sex Is Immoral and Cannot Be Decriminalized, Government Tells High Court >>> PTI | September 26, 2008-09-27
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