Mizoram may back 1909 order to ban gay sex

AIZAWL: Gay couples may be on cloud nine across India but their ���freedom��� seems to elude their peers in Christian-dominated Mizoram.
Despite the Delhi HC���s order on Section 377 of IPC, the Mizoram government may turn back to pages of the state archives to find out where exactly their state stands so far as homosexuality is concerned.
Superintendent of then Lushai Hills HWG Cole had issued a statute under the British rule, 1909, criminalising homosexuality.After the statute was implemented in the Lushai Hills, homosexuals were often treated as outcasts. With the scrapping of Section 377, gays in Mizoram had seen a ray of hope.
But church and social leaders opposed the Delhi HC verdict and favoured the 1909 British order.
Reverend Zosangliana Colney, executive secretary of the Mizoram Synod, said the British administration had laid down the order with Christianity in mind. He said the 1909 order was strongly supported by the Church.
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