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Published 07/02/2009 by The Hindu


Muslim clerics feel family system will be destroyed

LUCKNOW: Taking a firm view that homosexuality and lesbianism threatened to destroy the already crumbling family system in the country, Muslim religious leaders are unanimous that consensual sex of this form should not be legalised in a multi-religious society...

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