Update from meeting between 3 ministers.. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Govt-buys-time-to-soothe-anti-gay-sentiment/articleshow/4832084.cms
=============== NEW DELHI: The decision to ask the Union Cabinet to take a final call on the recent Delhi High Court judgement legalising adult gay sex may only help the government buy more time to soothe the angry feelings it has invoked among various religious communities. The latest move by a three-member panel comprising home minister P Chidambaram, law minister Veerappa Moily and health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad - tasked by the prime minister to formulate a view on whether Section 377 needed to be updated/scrapped - to seek a consensus within the Cabinet comes even as their own opinion is in favour of the judgement legalising sex between consenting adult homosexuals. At the meeting on Tuesday, there was broad agreement that HC judgement scrapping a particular provision of Section 377 regarding consensual gay sex between adults was “balanced”, as it had left the provisions criminalising non-consensual sex between homosexuals as well as sodomy intact. <Read more at the link provided> -- - Preyas For true friendship..
