Lifestyle choice cannot be illegal, Omar Abdullah on Supreme Court verdict criminalising gay sex

Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict upholding section 377 of IPC, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said a lifestyle choice cannot be illegal.

People can take what ever stand their religious/moral beliefs dictate regarding #LGBT lifestyle choices but is terming it illegal not wrong?

— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) December 11, 2013

Omar wrote on Twitter.com The chief minister said it was not a question of morality or religion, but that a lifestyle choice cannot be illegal.

Questions of morality or religion are not the issue. How can a lifestyle choice be illegal? SC removes red lights for equality yet not #377

— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) December 11, 2013

The apex court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.