Source: www.hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 9, 2009: Maintaining that homosexuality is against nature and the “will of god”, religious leaders on Thursday urged the government to take their views into consideration before taking any decision on the court judgement de-criminalising gay sex.
“We urge the union and Delhi governments to keep in mind the views of various religious committees while taking a stand on the judgement of the Delhi High Court,” Jain religious leader Acharya Lokesh Muniji told reporters at a press conference of religious leaders in New Delhi on Thursday.
“It’s not that we don’t support independence of individuals but this judgment challenges the will of god,” he told the media hours after the Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the union government on its stand on the Delhi High Court verdict de-criminalizing gay sex.
Sharing the platform with Muniji was the president of Jamaat-e-Islaami Hind, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari who said that according to Islam homosexuality is a crime. And Sardar Tarsem Singh of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee who stated, “Sikh religion doesn’t view homosexuals as criminals but we don’t encourage it.”