After flip-flop, Centre tells SC it's not opposed to gay sex

After a flip-flop on their stance on homosexuality, the Union government today told the Supreme Court it was not opposed to decriminalising gay consensual sex. [caption id=“attachment_227575” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=" The court told the government not to waste its time. AFP"]  [/caption] Times Now said the government today told the court that it did not oppose gay sex as interpreted by the Delhi High Court judgement However, the Supreme Court took the government to task for changing its stance. Don’t make mockery of the system and don’t waste court’s time, the court told the government. The Supreme Court was hearing a petition challenging the decriminalisation of the gay consensual sex by the Delhi High court in 2009. The Delhi High court had struck down provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises consensual sexual acts of homosexual adults in private as it violated their constitutional rights. An Additional Solicitor General representing the Home Ministry had told the court on 23 February that they were opposed  to gay sex as it was highly immoral and there was a high possibility of diseases spreading due to it. However, after a furore, the Home Ministry issued a release denying it was opposed to the Delhi High Court judgement. When informed about the change in stance, the Supreme Court had pulled up the government. with inputs from PTI