India Refuses Diplomatic Status for Homosexual Partners of Canadian Gay Diplomats

re: "NEW DELHI, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Calcutta Telegraph reports that the Indian government has refused diplomatic status to the same-sex “spouses” of two members of the Canadian diplomatic corps. / Indian culture is very traditional and Indian law retains a strict understanding of marriage being possible only between a man and a woman...[snip]...The Telegraph quoted unnamed sources in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs who said that the Canadian government had requested an exemption from the law for the man and woman in question. But the Ministry sources said the government has told Canada its diplomats are not exempt from the law of the land in which the diplomat is based..."...