Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind believes Homosexuality is against nature, religion

After the Supreme Court decriminalized Section 377, a leading Muslim organization called Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said homosexuality is against nature, religion and cultural values.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind's General Secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani said, "Homosexuality is against nature, religion and cultural values of India. It should not have been allowed."

"A process which affects the growth of society cannot be termed right by calling it freedom. Homosexuals have been here since ages, but in the religious texts, homosexuality has been described as an act of rebellion against the laws of nature," he said.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra termed the part of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes unnatural sex as irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary.