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Indian MP says legalizing gay sex will help combat ISIS
An outspoken MP in India’s Lower House of Parliament has called for laws targeting homosexual men, marijuana users and people who use pornography to be considered as part of a government process of repealing obsolete and redundant laws.
Biju Janata Dal party chief whip Tathagata Satpathy made the comments on Thursday during a 10 minute speech on the Repealing and Amending (Fourth) Bill 2015 which seeks to repeal almost three hundred laws from the country’s civil code.
Satpathy said of India’s colonial era Section 377 ban on consensual gay sex, ‘laws which are becoming archaic also need a re-look and probably they need repealing also.’
‘I would give an example of something like Section 377, the law relating to [a] small section of society. But it has a relevance to a particular kind of people who are human beings, who have feelings like us, but their sexual needs are different from a lot of people we know.’
Satpathy said laws that fractured Indian society by discriminating against some people made the country less able to stand united in the face of extremism.
‘If you want to combat those evil organizations like the ISIS, then you have to become a more alert and a more modern society which encompasses with affection every citizen of the nation,’ Satpathy said in his speech.
‘The moment you start differentiating, the moment you start dividing society, then you fall prey to the evil organizations like the ISIS.’
On online pornography, Satpathy said while he found porn objectionable, it should not be up to the bureaucracy of the state to decide which websites Indians could visit.
‘Today, it could be a bad site, it could be a pornographic site which we all support should not be watched by people,’ Satpathy said.
‘But when you start doing something like that, then there is no end to [it].’
On marijuana, Satpathy said it was not fair that the ‘law comes down heavily on intoxicants of the poorer people’ when alcohol was sold openly at government owned stores at a time when alcoholism was a growing problem in rural communities.
India’s Section 377 ban on consensual gay sex was struck down in 2009 before being reinstated by the Supreme Court of India in 2013.
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