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On
expected lines the Delhi High Court judgment legalizing gay sex
among consenting adults has opened the Pandora’s Box. Though the
judgment is being hailed as a landmark decision by a section in the
mainstream media, it is receiving all around opposition from almost
every section of the society in India. The country that rarely finds
leaders from various religions deliberating on any particular issue
from a single platform witnessed quite a few number of them
vehemently condemning the gay sex in the past few weeks. Terming the
judgment as dangerous for the future generation,
Shankara Acharya Omkar Anandji
in one such meeting
said,
we believe that the ruling should be annulled else our future
generations will be finished. He even warned, gay sex would
place mankind on the path to doom.
Interestingly the Delhi High Court's judgment is greeted with a
resounding "no" even by the Indian armed forces. They also termed
gay sex as “unnatural that can be a punishable offence.”
At
the same time, the judgment also saw a series of articles by medical
experts including few prominent sexologists warning the government
from taking any hasty decision owing to the various sexual and other
diseases that result because of anal or gay sex.
This is perhaps why the government too seems to be confused. And
looking at the Central Government’s stand taken when the Supreme
Court on July 20
asked it to file its response on the Delhi High Court verdict on gay sex,
it seems the government is finding itself in a catch 22 situation.
If
the Government is certainly confused and unable to take a decision,
here is the historical account of Dead Sea that exists in Jordan
since last thousands of years as a lesson for those who indulge in
homosexuality. The account can perhaps help the Indian Government in
coming out with a decision on gay sex that can be beneficial to
everyone including the homosexuals.
Dead Sea:
A Living Lesson for Homosexuals
82 kilometers in length and 18 kilometers wide Dead Sea is thousands
of foot deep and exists 1300 foot below the sea level in between
Palestine and Jordan. Due to the salt ratio which is 8 times more
than the other oceans in the world, the density of water in Dead Sea
is enormously high. So much so that a person floats on the surface
and is not drowned in it.
Around four thousand years from now Prophet Looth - nephew of the
Biblical Prophet Abraham was sent by the Almighty Allah as His
Messenger to Sodom, a town 55 kilometers to Amman, the capital of
Jordan in the Middle East. Quran has described the historical
accounts of Prophet Looth and his folks in Surah Al-Ankaboot and
Surah Hud with much details. People of Sodom indulged in
homosexuality, a habit unheard of till then. Quran describes their
unnatural act in these words:
“And recall Looth who said to his folks, you commit the lewdness
such as no creature did before you.”
(Surah Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 28)
Prophet Looth tried hard so as to refrain them from indulging in
homosexuality. However they declined to fall in line. Their
insistence on lewdness invited the wrath of the Almighty Allah.
Quran says:
“We are about to bring down upon folks of this township a fury from
the sky because they are evil-livers.”
(Surah Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 34)
Before finally destroying the people of Sodom, Allah sent three
Angels in the town, who were in juvenile human form. They knocked at
Prophet Looth as guests. Prophet Looth, aware of the habit his
folks were involved in, was distressed and helplessly tried to find
ways to protect them. Quran describes the incidence as this:
“And his people came unto him, running towards him – and before then
they used to commit abominations. He said: O my people! Here are my
(native) daughters! They are purer for you. Beware of Allah and
degrade me not in (the presence of) my guests. Is there not among
you any upright man?”
(Surah Hud, Ayah 78)
At this point the Angels disclosed to Prophet Looth that they were
actually Angels of Allah and had been descended to destroy the town.
They advised Prophet Looth to leave the town with his companions.
Once the believers abandoned the town, the Angels destroyed the
whole town. Describing the incident Quran says:
“So when Our commandment came to pass, We overthrew (that township)
and rained upon it stones of clay, one after another.”
(Surah Hud, Ayah 82)
The idea that homosexual intercourse was involved as at least a part
of the evil of Sodom arises from the story in Genesis 19. It
notes:
Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city
of Sodom - both young and old - surrounded the house. They called to
Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to
us so that we can have sex with them."
Moreover, under Hebrew references Wikipedia notes,
many
times in the Pentateuch and Prophets, writers use God's destruction
of Sodom to demonstrate His awesome power.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her
daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she
did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and
committed abominations before Me.
(Ezekiel 16.49-50)
The New Testament like the Old Testament also references Sodom as a
place of God's anger against sin.
And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their
proper abode, He [God] has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for
the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the
cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in
gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an
example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. Yet in the
same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject
authority, and revile angelic majesties.
(Jude 1:7, New American Standard Version)
Interestingly English word 'Sodomy', commonly used for homosexuality
is derived from Sodom, the name of the town where Prophet Looth
was sent as the Messenger. Describing Sodomy, Wikipedia notes, it is a term used today predominantly in law (derived from
traditional Christian usage) to describe the act of anal
intercourse, oral intercourse, or bestiality.
Majority of narrators believe that Dead Sea is exactly the place and
the town that was earlier known as Sodom where Prophet Looth had
been sent as the Messenger thousands of years before.
After describing the accounts of Prophet Looth and his unfortunate
folks, Allah concludes the whole incidence terming it a lesson for
the mankind.
“And verily of that We have left a clear sign for people who have
sense.”
(Surah Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 35)
We believe the Indian Government is neither senseless nor would be
willing
to invite the wrath of The Almighty and The All Powerful.
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