RSS physique survey on same-sex marriage: Dangerous and misleading, say LGBTQ activists 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Several LGBTQ rights activists have known as the survey on same-sex marriage by an RSS physique “dangerous and misleading” and accused the organisation of “spreading disinformation”.

According to the survey by Samwardhini Nyas, an affiliate of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti (a ladies’s organisation which parallels the RSS), many docs and allied medical professionals contemplate that homosexuality is “a disorder” and it will enhance extra in society if same-sex marriage is legalised.

“Such a analysis is dangerous and misleading for a society that is unaware. It goes in the direction of basic dignity and portions to defamation. Who are these docs who’ve respondents inside the survey? Their licences must be cancelled.

“Be it The Yoga Institute which was founded in 1918 or the Indian Psychiatric Society, both have maintained that homosexuality is legitimate and normal, it is natural, inborn and choiceless,” acknowledged author and advocate for equal rights, Sharif Rangnekar, who moreover components out how Hinduism is replete with references to homosexuality.

Activist Harish Iyer acknowledged that psychiatric our our bodies from the world over and India have maintained that homosexuality is simply not an “aberration but a variation”.

It is previous any reasonably priced doubt, he acknowledged. “No religion that claims to be a protector of humanity can also support this labelling of LGBTQIA+ individuals as deviants. It is against the ethos of our nation and also against the very grain of the belief of every religion that is based on the principle of love and acceptance.”

“If you believe that your God created all of humankind. Then God made me too. And standing up against LGBTQIA+ individuals is akin to working against the intent of your God. God made me this way,” he acknowledged.

Iyer moreover appealed to the federal authorities to spice up consciousness on the issue.

“In keeping with the ruling on the Section 377, the government’s responsibility is to create awareness to ensure more acceptance and no misinformation. I would appeal to the government of the day to step in and stand against such blatant disinformation,” he acknowledged.

Q Manivannan, a queer scholar and PhD candidate, University of St Andrews, too refers to historic mythology in debunking the outcomes of the survey.

“The RSS forgets, when convenient, that homosexuality is rife in mythology too. Same-sex unions of many kinds, companionships and homoeroticism, much like transgender themes, feature in the Ramayana, in the Mahabharata, and the Upanishads,” he acknowledged.

Activist and CPI-M chief Subhashini Ali moreover attacked the survey.

“It was “idiotic unscientific, inhuman,” she tweeted.

The survey has been carried out by the Samwardhini Nyas in the direction of the backdrop of a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, listening to arguments on a batch of pleas seeking approved sanction for same-sex marriage.

A senior functionary of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti had acknowledged the findings of the survey are primarily based totally on 318 responses collected all through the nation masking medical practitioners from eight completely totally different pathies of remedy from trendy science to Ayurveda.

In their response to the survey, consistent with Samwardhini Nyas, virtually 70 per cent of the docs and allied medical professionals acknowledged that “homosexuality is a disorder” whereas 83 per cent of them “confirmed transmission of sexual disease in homosexual relations.”

NEW DELHI: Several LGBTQ rights activists have known as the survey on same-sex marriage by an RSS physique “dangerous and misleading” and accused the organisation of “spreading disinformation”.

According to the survey by Samwardhini Nyas, an affiliate of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti (a ladies’s organisation which parallels the RSS), many docs and allied medical professionals contemplate that homosexuality is “a disorder” and it will enhance extra in society if same-sex marriage is legalised.

“Such a analysis is dangerous and misleading for a society that is unaware. It goes in the direction of basic dignity and portions to defamation. Who are these docs who’ve respondents inside the survey? Their licences must be cancelled.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Be it The Yoga Institute which was founded in 1918 or the Indian Psychiatric Society, both have maintained that homosexuality is legitimate and normal, it is natural, inborn and choiceless,” acknowledged author and advocate for equal rights, Sharif Rangnekar, who moreover components out how Hinduism is replete with references to homosexuality.

Activist Harish Iyer acknowledged that psychiatric our our bodies from the world over and India have maintained that homosexuality is simply not an “aberration but a variation”.

It is previous any reasonably priced doubt, he acknowledged. “No religion that claims to be a protector of humanity can also support this labelling of LGBTQIA+ individuals as deviants. It is against the ethos of our nation and also against the very grain of the belief of every religion that is based on the principle of love and acceptance.”

“If you believe that your God created all of humankind. Then God made me too. And standing up against LGBTQIA+ individuals is akin to working against the intent of your God. God made me this way,” he acknowledged.

Iyer moreover appealed to the federal authorities to spice up consciousness on the issue.

“In keeping with the ruling on the Section 377, the government’s responsibility is to create awareness to ensure more acceptance and no misinformation. I would appeal to the government of the day to step in and stand against such blatant disinformation,” he acknowledged.

Q Manivannan, a queer scholar and PhD candidate, University of St Andrews, too refers to historic mythology in debunking the outcomes of the survey.

“The RSS forgets, when convenient, that homosexuality is rife in mythology too. Same-sex unions of many kinds, companionships and homoeroticism, much like transgender themes, feature in the Ramayana, in the Mahabharata, and the Upanishads,” he acknowledged.

Activist and CPI-M chief Subhashini Ali moreover attacked the survey.

“It was “idiotic unscientific, inhuman,” she tweeted.

The survey has been carried out by the Samwardhini Nyas in the direction of the backdrop of a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, listening to arguments on a batch of pleas seeking approved sanction for same-sex marriage.

A senior functionary of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti had acknowledged the findings of the survey are primarily based totally on 318 responses collected all through the nation masking medical practitioners from eight completely totally different pathies of remedy from trendy science to Ayurveda.

In their response to the survey, consistent with Samwardhini Nyas, virtually 70 per cent of the docs and allied medical professionals acknowledged that “homosexuality is a disorder” whereas 83 per cent of them “confirmed transmission of sexual disease in homosexual relations.”