{"id":75284,"date":"2019-01-11T02:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/11\/not-acceptable-indian-army-backs-gay-sex-ban-despite-decriminalisation\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T02:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:33:35","slug":"not-acceptable-indian-army-backs-gay-sex-ban-despite-decriminalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75284","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Not acceptable&#039;: Indian army backs gay sex ban despite decriminalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Bipin Rawat says lifting of ban on homosexuality and infidelity in India does not apply to armyIndia\u2019s army chief said on Thursday that gay sex and adultery would not be tolerated in the army\u2019s ranks, months after a landmark court ruling struck down colonial-era prohibitions against homosexuality and infidelity.After a decades-long campaign by activists the supreme court last year decriminalised Section 377 \u2013 also known as \u201cunnatural offences\u201d \u2013 and the adultery law from the statue books. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/11\/not-acceptable-indian-army-backs-gay-sex-ban-despite-decriminalisation\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Not acceptable&#039;: Indian army backs gay sex ban despite decriminalisation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Bipin Rawat says lifting of ban on homosexuality and infidelity in India does not apply to armyIndia\u2019s army chief said on Thursday that gay sex and adultery would not be tolerated in the army\u2019s ranks, months after a landmark court ruling struck down colonial-era prohibitions against homosexuality and infidelity.After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}