Section 377 of Indian Penal Code should be abolished

Resolution: Section 377 of Indian Penal Code should be abolishedPrimarily, the first thing I wish to clarify and convey to my learned adversary and voters is that if I show and provide enough reasons for the law to sustain and remain undisturbed, in compliance with the resolution I will win this debate. `~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.I have divided my fundamental dissensions into four different sections for the purpose of clarity.Will cause turmoil in the countryTo start with, I would like to bring to light the fact that India is in reality not a secular country, with different parties, religious cults and communities following different religions and beliefs,taking a move to abolish the law ,in a conservative society as which thrives in India, will culminate in unnecessary riots and rampage. Also with the ruling party BJP and large sections of religious groups against the abolishment of this law we are in a scenario where the price is too much to pay and the reward insubstantial(about which I will be discussing in the upcoming sections).Abolishment of such a law might have had an effect in maybe other more secular countries but in India there are hardly any practical purpose that can be attained on abolishment of this law given the cost that the country would be needed to suffer.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.Neutrality of the lawThe law was declared in the year 1861 but I challenge my learned adversary to give an account of a homosexual couple living in peace and equality in the society of India before the time of the implementation of the law, I'm afraid my opponent will find this really hard if not impossible, cause law or no law the mentality of the community will be ever the same. Of course a possible argument that my opponent can come up would be the instillation of awareness on the topic of homosexuality and homosexual needs but that would be going away from the domain of this debate since as I earlier mentioned the resolution is only on whether Section 377 of Indian Penal Code be abolished or not. And coming to effects of the law, since its establishment it has made few to no conviction thus negating any claims on it effecting the overall equality of homosexuals,thus abolishing such a law will just be a futile effort on bringing equality to homosexuals in India and the trouble that would have been taken to do so would be tremendous. And now I put a question to my opponent to answer, will abolishment of such a law according to your argument lead them, to quote your own words, "live a life like everyone else"? Maybe legally Yes, but the scenario will remain as ever it was after the abolishment as before.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.The Long time period and strain that would be involvedAbolishing such a law will require a lot of time/effort and with other more important and pressing issues that overrun the current Indian society such as overpopulation,poverty,corruption,education,terrorism,.etc to address with, running after abolishing a law which has significantly no damage or impact on the society(given the few to no reported conviction on the grounds of this law) is just a futile waste of time and energy.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.More harm than goodAbolishment of this law will also mean other natural sexual abnormalities such as pedophilia,zoophilia,.etc are very much as legal as homosexuality. Well who can argue otherwise? Section 377 of Indian penal code is as such a law which covers an even larger area and abolishing of which will provoke and promote other inhumane activities as stated before.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.`~.Conclusion:The argument provided by my adversary to abolish section 377 is only theoretically sound, in reality it has hardly any practical applications on a country like India. Thus making this senseless move to abolish the said law would only tarnish the already feeble unity and harmony in the country.And that would be all.Looking forward to my opponents response :).