THE LAST BASTION OF ASIAN VALUES

India is one of the few professed liberal democracies in the world that still has such a law. The others are mostly Islamic or authoritarian, and even China lifted its ban in 1997.

Successive governments have long argued that Indian society is too conservative to accept repealing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code — under which sex “against nature” is punishable by up to ten years in prison. India’s leaders have come under increasing pressure in recent years from activists who say that the law, introduced in 1860, violates civil liberties and encourages the spread of HIV by forcing homosexuals underground.

The new Government that took power in May after the Congress Party’s surprise election victory has indicated that it is ready to change the law, which is at present being challenged in the Delhi High Court, according to Indian media reports.

Times Online: India to repeal anti-gay law as second Gay Pride is held

Good on you, India. So after them and China, it falls upon Singapore to undertake the mantle and defend those sacred Asian values afterall. We shall remain staunch and steadfast at heart in discriminating against people because we are moral, we are conservative and we hold dearly onto our Asian values, go us!

~ by burningrepublicstate on July 1, 2009.