Section 377 of Chapter XVI in the Indian Penal Code states: “Whoever 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.” This British law dates back to 1861 and criminalises sexual activities against the order of nature and the ambit of this law extends to any sexual union involving penile insertion.
The so-called ‘global consensus’ is only of a Westernized metropolitan elite that also has not qualms about promoting pornography, prostitution, abortion, etc. There is plenty of evidence (especially from the ancient Greek city-states and the Roman Empire) to show that whenever society promotes sexual promiscuity and indulgence, sexual perversions also increase. “Lust” is the most potent weapon that is employed by satanic elements (in Indic terms we can call these ‘tamasic’) that would like to impede any spiritual progress of human beings. The ideas of ‘modernity’ of this shallow metropolitan elite is essentially satanic (opposed to all religious ideas and values), leading to moral anarchy. Much of the s0-called “main stream media” is completely within the control of this shallow metropolitan elite. That is why there is every chance that this opinion that I am posting will be either fully or partly censored.
I don’t think the government will take an official stand before the Court that it supports Section 377 being rescinded. Nor will Parliament amend the law. It falls to the apex court to sense the national mood, that much of India would wish to join the global consensus that society should not intrude upon individual choices.