Pakistani same-sex couple risk criminal charges

A Pakistani judge today warned two women, one of whom has had sex reassignment surgery, that they risked charges of committing an act of unnatural lust and that their marriage was against both the law and Islam.

The judge was hearing a case that pits the bride's father, who wants to annul the wedding on religious grounds, against the couple, who said they wed to protect the bride from being sold into marriage to pay off her uncle's gambling debts.