So with more and more countries making progressive steps to equalize rights between homosexual and heterosexual persons, I guess it is unfortunate that there are some countries that will try to reverse that direction.

First, Russia made international news making the promotion or homosexual lifestyle illegal.

Now we have India's Supreme Court overriding a lower court ruling in 2009 that ruled an 1860 law outlawing "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal".

Full article here

I have started this here as the topic because it deals with religious and political matters behind the decision.

First off the Supreme Courts overruling the lower Courts decision was on appeal from the religious conservative factions. Also, the government facing an increase in pressure from the right wing conservative religious parties, they are believed to not want to open this subject up before May's national elections.

India is the world's largest democracy. It is a sad affair to say the least, that religion has such an influence on this nation.

It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction the police have, will they enforce the law? What the GLBT community will be doing to increase publicity and pressure for the government to re write the laws? What the international and more specifically the West will do to add international pressure?

Hopefully sounder minds will eventually decide this and the government will make the necessary changes to avoid the courts from taking the nation back 154 years into the past.

For our Indian gay members that will always be 'closer' to what is going on then us in the West, feel free to add into here or start your own blog.