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Indian gay couples begin legal battle for same-sex marriage
AP (on their own site) ^ | 2023-02-03 | SHEIKH SAALIQ

Posted on 02/03/2023 6:37:08 AM PST by Salman

NEW DELHI (AP) — Utkarsh Saxena and Ananya Kotia’s love story began just like any other college romance. Except no one else knew about the gay couple’s relationship.

It was 2008. Homosexuality was yet to gain a degree of acceptance in deeply conservative India, with many gay couples facing stigma and isolation. So Saxena and Kotia took their time, watching from a distance how people’s acceptance of homosexuality was changing.

“We were actually quite scared about the consequences,” said Saxena, a public policy scholar at the University of Oxford. “We were very fragile and vulnerable, a young couple figuring out ourselves, and didn’t want, you know, something as drastic as this to break us in some sense.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; india; perversion; perverts; samesexmirage
Sodomy is not illegal in India as it is in Pakistan, but no so called gay marriage. They are about where the USA was in 2000.
1 posted on 02/03/2023 6:37:08 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Hopefully the Indians will have the sense to make sodomy fully illegal.


2 posted on 02/03/2023 6:56:43 AM PST by Tacticalman
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To: Salman

No doubt backed financially by some organization America.


3 posted on 02/03/2023 7:07:42 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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The ESG people don’t just assign ratings to corporations. They rate countries as well. India has to have a low ESG score.


4 posted on 02/03/2023 7:33:08 AM PST by lasereye ( )
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To: Salman
“We were actually quite scared about the consequences,” said Saxena, a public policy scholar at the University of Oxford.

Is there a "University of Oxford"in India? Or is this some guy who emigrated from India, now serving as a front for Western pro-gay organizations?
5 posted on 02/03/2023 7:50:11 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: lasereye

Yes they have studied and understood; Or at least they think so


6 posted on 02/03/2023 9:42:34 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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