Homosexuality must not be legalized: Priests of Ayodhya

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By Abu Zafar, India Tomorrow,
New Delhi/Ayodhya, 18 Dec 2013: While some people are protesting against the recent Supreme Court verdict criminalizing homosexuality, several priests of Ayodhya have come out in support of the verdict and demanded the Central Government not to nullify it. They say homosexuality is unethical and a religious country like India cannot and must not legalize it. Since the Supreme Court order last week, some key figures of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government have hinted about likely ordinance against the verdict.

Mahant Dharam Das, chief of Shri Nirvani Ani Akhara, said homosexuality is unethical and only corrupt people are supporting it.

“It is unethical and people who are supporting it are corrupt and loafers are trying to decriminalize such things,” Dharam Das told India Tomorrow.

He said that homosexuality is against his culture and humanity.

“Even animals don’t do it. Where do they want to take this country?,” he asked.

He also said that he read the statement of Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi soon after the SC verdict when they announced to make a law.

“I have read their statements. They should try to decriminalize it in any foreign country but not India,” he said.

The chief priest of makeshift Ram Janmabhoomi temple has also supported SC order and is against legalizing homosexuality.

“Sexual relation between same gender is not in our culture or religion. SC verdict is correct and justified,” Acharya Satyendra Das, chief priest of makeshift Ram Janmabhoomi temple, Ayodhya, told India Tomorrow.

“It is a trend of foreign countries which is unfortunately coming to India. It should never be allowed in a country like India,” Das explained.

Backing Acharya Satyendra’s comment, Naga Damodar Das, priest of Hanumangarhi, states that even it is very shameful to talk about homosexuality.
“Even it is very shameful even to talk about such topics”.

“It is against Sanatana Dharma and Hindu religion. It is infringe of nature. I have studied other religions also and I never found any support for it,” Damodar Das told India Tomorrow.

“I support individual’s freedom but homosexuality is violation of natural creation,” he further said.

Supporting the SC ruling another priest, Mahant Udar Das termed it as nonsense.

“India is a religious country and this kind of nonsense should not be allowed,” Mahant Udar Das, president of Kabir Math in Ayodhya, said.

“A noble person will never identify himself or herself as homosexual,” he added.

A bench comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya on 11 Dec 2013 quashed the Delhi High Court judgment of 2009 which had ruled that section 377 of the Indian Penal Code prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” infringed the fundamental rights of Indians.

Setting aside the High Court verdict, the apex court said there was no constitutional room for change in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which holds same-gender sexual relationship as an act against the order of the nature and as an offence.

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