Repealing 365/365A: Legalizing Homosexuality, Sexually Abusing Children

 

In 2023, a deceptively packaged proposal was tabled to amend Section 365 and fully repeal Section 365A of Sri Lanka’s Penal Code — laws that currently criminalize unnatural sexual acts and gross indecency. LGBTQIA+ lobbyists and their foreign-funded backers claimed these were “colonial relics” and “tools of discrimination.” This is an outright falsehood. A legal Trojan Horse. A weaponized lie to justify their lobbying.

These lobbyists are not pursuing equality — they are hijacking Sri Lanka’s legal system to decriminalize all forms of homosexuality, erase protections for children, and break down religious, cultural, and moral safeguards that have protected society for generations. They are not even bothered about adults sexually abusing children to satisfy their lusts.

What Rewriting Penal Code 365 Really Means:

1. Decriminalize Homosexuality in All Forms

By removing the words “man” and “woman” from Section 365, the rewritten version proposed in 2023 which the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is now recommending removes any criminal penalty for any unnatural sexual act — regardless of context, setting, or potential for harm. The lame excuse that this abuse is covered in other acts omits to accepts that only in 365/365A does the crime specifically cover same-sex sexual abuse. In other provisions, the lawyers would need to argue the case & everything would boil down to interpretations. The disadvantage would always be with the victim.

What rewriting Penal Code 365 actually means:

• Male-male, female-female, and nonbinary sexual acts — allfully legalized.
• Anal and oral sex— formerly prosecutable under 365 — now protected by law.
• Only bestiality remains penalized. Every other human-to-human act —no matter how unnatural, exploitative, or immoral — becomes fair game.

Bottom line:
Does the above remotely cover discrimination or does it advocate lust? This is not about ending discrimination. This is about enshrining any form of homosexual conduct as untouchable in the law — regardless of age, setting, or consequence.

2. Erase Protections for Male Children (particularly under 365A)

Section 365A is one of the few legal shields male children have in Sri Lanka against predators. Rather than repeal this entirely as was the 2023 proposal, this should be amended to include female & 365A should be further strengthened. However, the Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka appears to want to remove this safeguard too.

If 365A is repealed:

• Indecent behavior, grooming, and coercive acts toward boys — such as exposing, touching, or verbal abuse — will no longer be punishable unless statutory rape can be proven.
• Underage male victimslose legal recourse unless a full sexual assault with penetration occurs — a near-impossible standard in many real-life abuse cases.

Bottom line:
This is legal disarmament of the system meant to protect boys from abuse in homes, schools, temples, churches, and tuition centers. It’s open season on male children, and the LGBTQIA+ lobby knows it.

Presenting 365A as a “discrimination” the LGBTIQA lobbyists want to completely remove this provision. HRCSL are also happy to oblige. Once again look at the list of prominent names who are also agreeable!

3. Remove Legal Safeguards in Schools, Hostels, and Orphanages

Sections 365 and 365A currently empower authorities to monitor and prosecute sexual misconduct. The repeal will strip away these powers.

What’s at stake:

• Hostel wardens, principals, clergy, and matronslose legal grounds to intervene unless rape is proven.
• Indecent exposure, molestation, and grooming in orphanages and schools?No longer prosecutable.
• Same-sex sexual experimentation or coercion in boarding facilities?Now protected behavior.

Bottom line:
Children in institutional care become sitting ducks, while the system looks away — not out of ignorance, but because the law now forbids action. How can HRCSL even recommend such?

4. Open the door to Foreign Ideologies that contradict Sri Lanka’s Cultural & Religious Values

Let us be clear:
This is not a domestic legal reform. This is a foreign ideological coup.

These laws are being rewritten under direct pressure from foreign-funded NGOs, Western embassies, UN agencies, and LGBTQIA+ global lobby groups.

Their goal is to:

• Introducegender-fluid education in schools (how bizarre to even promote the idea that a person is neither male nor female – those promoting such need immediate mental appraisal)
• Legalizesame-sex marriage
• Normalizeminors undergoing gender transition (the West is now reversing having experienced the dangers)
• Punish cultural dissent as “hate speech” – this new term was specifically introduced to silent the sane voices

Bottom line:
This isn’t modernization — it’s moral invasion. It’s a hostile cultural takeover — by stealth — disguised as “human rights.” It is an attack on the nation’s Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, and Christian foundations.

Expose the Lobbyists — Call Out the Cowards

 

Let it be stated without apology:

The lobbyists behind this scheme — both local and foreign — have deceived the Sri Lankan people, misled the President, manipulated the Cabinet, and attempted to outmaneuver the legal system by using “human rights” as a mask to push a foreign agenda.

• They haveexploited children’s rights rhetoric to promote sexual permissiveness.
• They haveshamed the public into silence, using Western media tools.
• They haveinfiltrated law faculties, civil society groups, and public discourse to normalize what is not normal.

They have lied. And now they must be named, shamed, and held accountable.

This is not “progress.” This is cultural betrayal, and the Sri Lankan people must rise with clarity and courage to reject this ideological blackmail.

This Is Not Reform — It’s Surrender

Repealing or rewriting Penal Code Sections 365 and 365A is:

• Not about ending discrimination – Police statistics prove a non-existent “discrimination”
• Not supported by crime data or judicial necessity
• Not requested by the general public
• Not aligned with any religious or cultural value in Sri Lanka

It is a legal gateway to:

• Legalize homosexuality without restriction
• Remove protections for boys and minors
• Strip institutions of authority and discipline
• Import Western ideologies that collapse societies

Time to Say: Not in Our Country

 

 

Shenali D Waduge