Christian conservative Bryan Fischer on
Wednesday cheered India's Supreme Court for reinstating that
country's ban on gay sex.
India's highest court unanimously
upheld Section 377 of India's penal code, a holdover from British
colonial rule that outlaws consensual sex “against the order of
nature,” which is widely understood to mean homosexual acts. The
court said that only lawmakers could change Section 377.
While the law is rarely invoked, gay
rights activists say it encourages discrimination against the LGBT
community.
Wednesday's ruling shocked activists
and their supporters, because the high court had refused to put on
hold a landmark 2009 lower court judgment declaring intercourse
between two consenting members of the same sex legal while an appeal
moved forward.
On his AFA-sponsored Focal Point
radio show, Fischer hailed the ruling as “entirely appropriate”
and as proof that gay rights gains could be reversed.
“This is entirely right and entirely
appropriate,” Fischer told listeners. “Same-sex behavior is
unnatural, it is against the order of nature: You just look at the
plumbing and you can tell; what body parts are designed for what use
and you can see right away that this is contrary to nature.”
This decision “shows that this
cultural trend that we're dealing with can be reversed, because for
four years it was open season for homosexuals in India and now that
drift away from cultural norms and moral norms, that's been reversed
in the country of India. … Good law in India upheld by the Supreme
Court.” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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