Homosexuality In India – The Invisible Conflict

F. Preference for Homosexual Marriages for Oneself when Legal
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F. Homosexual Marriages For Oneself When
Legal
Favoured Against
Responses
Fig. F gives the preferences of the respondents about homosexual marriages for oneself when legal. Of all
the respondents only 6% of the respondents preferred possibility of homosexual marriages for themselves
whereas 94% out rightly rejected any kind of possibility or acceptance of such type of behaviour for
themselves even if homosexuality was legalized.
Comparing Fig. C and F that is preference of the respondents for homosexual behaviour for oneself when
illegal and when legal, the statistics reveal that there is not a steep rise in homosexual behaviour even
when it is legalized because acceptance response rate is only 6% when homosexuality is decriminalized
whereas when illegal the response rate was only 2% that is there is difference of only 4% for acceptance
on legalization.
This shows that Homosexuality even if legalised will never become the normal fact of Society. It will be
only those individuals who have inclination for homosexuality, that they will prefer going for such type of
behaviour whether homosexuality is criminalized or decriminalized. Thus legalization of homosexuality
will not be very attractive for heterosexuals because to them this behaviour will also appear as abnormal.
But the benefit of legalisation will be that the homosexuals who are also normal people but with different
sex orientation will not be criminalized on this count.
G. Accordance of Rights and Benefits to Homosexuals