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NEW DELHI,  – India ’s Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal launched over its decision last month upholding the country’s ban on “unnatural sex.” The Naz Foundation, a UK-based homosexual activist group that promotes and attempts to legalize homosexual behavior in South Asia, had sought a review of the court’s Dec. 11 th  decision. But in a  ruling  Tuesday, the Supreme Court said they “see no reason to interfere” with their ruling, so the petition for a review was “dismissed.” The statute in question, Section 377 of the Penal Code, has been criticized by homosexual advocacy groups for violating their rights. But it does not specifically mention homosexuality, targeting instead all sexual offences deemed unnatural. It reads: "Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall a

Image via Wikipedia NEW DELHI (AP) - India's health minister has derided homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the West, drawing outrage Tuesday from activists who said the comments set back the country's campaign for gay rights and its fight against HIV. The comments Monday by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at a conference on HIV/AIDS in the Indian capital echoed a common refrain in the conservative South Asian nation that homosexuality is a Western import. "Unfortunately this disease has come to our country too ... where a man has sex with another man, which is completely unnatural and should not happen, but does," Azad said. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and a slew of government ministers were also present at the conference. There was no immediate comment from the health ministry, and the prime minister's office Image via Wikipedia  refused to discuss the Azad's remarks. Anjali Gopalan, wh