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	<title><![CDATA[Big Victory for Gay Rights in India]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/groundreport/big-victory-for-gay-right_b_225015.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><em>Originally published on <a href="http://www.groundreport.com/World/Big-Victory-for-Gay-rights-in-India_2">GroundReport.com</a>, the world's most trusted citizen journalism network.</em></p>

<p>By <a href="http://www.groundreport.com/jagan">Jagan T</a></p>

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<p>At last, Delhi's High Court has legalized homosexuality. The court has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act.</p>

<p>The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence." The court said that a statute in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which defines homosexual acts as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and...</p></IMG></p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-02T14:34:00-04:00</date_published>
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