{"id":57328,"date":"2018-09-11T05:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T05:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57328"},"modified":"2018-09-11T05:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T05:43:55","slug":"india-finally-decriminalizes-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/09\/11\/india-finally-decriminalizes-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"India finally decriminalizes homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic move widely celebrated by people from all walks of life in the country, the Indian Supreme Court passed a ruling last Thursday that\u00a0overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex.<\/p>\n<p>A five-judge bench at the country\u2019s highest court ruled that a 160-year-old law banning sex \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d amounted to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCriminalising carnal intercourse under section 377 Indian penal code is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary,\u201d said the chief justice Dipak Misra, while announcing his decision to repeal the law.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment, after 24 years of legal challenges, triggered elation among LBGT Indians and their allies across the country and plans for all-night parties in nightclubs in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/06\/indian-supreme-court-decriminalises-homosexuality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/06\/indian-supreme-court-decriminalises-homosexuality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic move widely celebrated by people from all walks of life in the country, the Indian Supreme Court passed a ruling last Thursday that\u00a0overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex. A five-judge bench at the country\u2019s highest court ruled that a 160-year-old law banning sex \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d amounted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}