India decriminalizes homosexual sex

[HappyWarrior]

They were afraid of Atlasia's proposed LGBT Trade Act :-D lol

[Sbane]

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Isn't family law for Hindus theoretically based on a British-created Civil Code (except frequently ignored - minimum marriage age according to the thing is 18 which in many districts is actually higher than the median age of girls at marriage; polygamy is illegal but persists in some regions among some communities - and never existed in the first place most everywhere else, etc) while Muslims and Christians can basically use their religious laws (with a few exceptions)?
If so, one would expect Hindu gay marriage to be legal before Christian gay marriage.

Anyways, I wonder which side pays the dowry in an arranged gay marriage.

So according to Hindu family law (although it is called the hindu family law, it is more or less secular and applies to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Animists and anyone else with an indigenous belief system) any couple that is married according to tradition and completes the Saptapadi (seven steps or rounds around the fire). So any priest that agrees to a gay marriage and completes the right rituals will have performed a legal marriage. This has already happened in the case of Californian couples that wanted a traditional ceremony in addition to the license from the state. Based on the law it seems to me that the supreme court should rule these marriages as legal but probably won't due to the "greater public good" or some BS like that. Anyways marriage does not confer onto you benefits unlike here in America so many people in India don't even bother to register their marriages and thus gay marriage may not be as big as of an issue there as it would be here.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/30/arranged_gay_marriage/

Also the catcher would pay the dowry, duh.

[minionofmidas]

"29-year-old professional Indian gay, 5-foot-9, good job, looking for Indian lesbian facing similar family pressures"

Harr.