Gay rights......Civilization coming full circle ?

As consciousness revealed nature and its variety and the life chain nothing interfered with the primitives except the might which interfered with the meek. As senses saw sense in subjugating themselves to reason and disciplined conduct, humans had taken the first steps toward disciplining themselves and giving to themselves a Religion for human conduct and laying the first foundations for the making of civilizations.

When consciousness associated with the ego, the mind and the senses, the “being” came into existence along with nature, and the primitive beings lived the life of birds without any restrictions on cohabitation. No institution interfered with such cohabitation or conjugality. Life in its rudimentary customs was one and the same for the human and the animal. There was rarely any expression of preference as action responded to urge oblivious of the friction that such caused, and this continues among the animals even today though the humans now appear somewhat distinguished.

 A lion in a pride as it becomes weaker gets replaced by the stronger one and no restriction applies to this strong one even as it deals with the one of which it is born. The urge that drives the strong and the weak lion is the same and is genetically programmed. The conduct of the lions in the pride may have a tradition of might but such exercise of might is not governed by customs and laws that govern the humans which they have given to themselves through the journey of civilization.

 The world of the animals is delineated by a thin line which separates the humans which had urges and drives similar to the animals but in contrast to the animals had a distinguishing faculty, the faculty of reasoning that in time raised them to the level of the ruler who through his intelligent institutions established what we now understand as “civilizations.” These civilizations that came into existence had to make a long journey. They travelled through individuality into the concept of family, society and states with their laws. The society in their evolved civilized state developed their customs, traditions, folkways, and mores and in time institutionalized these into laws that were to be the agents of judgment and enforcement of order.

 The institution of marriage is one such institution that sought to recognize and safeguard cohabitation and accord it social and legal legitimacy. Frictions within this status, between individuals were not ruled out hence the societies and law also saw a way out in divorce. No man however strong can take another’s wife by virtue of his might or influence with impunity, as an ape, or a lion, or still other animals. It is the law of any land with civilized people that appreciate and recognize the aspirations of the people drawn from their feelings and emotions judged on the crucible of reason which shields the meek from the mighty.

There is light and there is darkness. There is good and there is bad. There is a majority stand and a minority stand, there are animal laws made by the human and there are laws made by him for himself. There are human rights with grey areas allowing practice of inhuman conduct.

 The Supreme Court of India sat on a curative petition today to decide whether the gays can have the freedom they demand, the High court having decriminalized the practice. The visual channels of our time cry hoarse in favor of people demanding a change, the Supreme Court previously found, a demand of the miniscule. Some men want to marry their sex and some women theirs.

 Laws are framed on the generality of situations and are arrived at and enacted with due regard to their implications on the minority. How relevant is the individual or how big a minority is a factor that has to be factored when the institutions of law sit upon doing or the undoing of a law. Laws, however cannot be the outcome of an individual or a miniscule minority’s demand irrespective of the loud support that the media lends. Those against the demand are a majority and their stand on the issue also needs to be factored because all the decisions of the day have implications for posterity who may have a reason to believe that the legitimate custodians of their future, had failed in safeguarding them and their march from primitiveness to civilized life submitting to the pressures of some stretched recourse to the concept of liberty.