The Penal Code prohibits " carnal knowledge against the order of nature ", attempts to commit " carnal knowledge against the order of nature ", and acts of " gross indecency ".
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Graham Norrie, 37, a workshop manager at Crocodile Camp Safari in northern Botswana, and Utjiwa Kanane, 22, have pled not guilty to charges of carnal knowledge " against the order of nature ."
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Sodomy, according to Black's Law Dictionary means : " carnal copulation against the order of nature, by man with man, or, in the same unnatural manner, with woman or with a beast ."
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The five-day conference, attended by about 70 gay men from the region, demanded that a law be repealed that that calls for jail for " any carnal intercourse against the order of nature ."
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In the states of Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Sokoto, and Zamfara, " sodomy " is committed by " [ w ] hoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman ".
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In the states of Kano and Katsina, " sodomy " is committed by " [ w ] hoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman through her rectum ".
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A bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice SJ Mukhopadhaya has upheld the Section 377 of India's penal code bans " sex against the order of nature ", which is widely interpreted to mean homosexual sex.
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"Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, does and understands only as much as he has observed, by fact or mental activity, concerning the order of nature; beyond that he has neither knowledge nor power ."
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Friedrich's mournful watercolor " Moonlit Landscape " ( probably done between 1830-1835 ), is a fairly typical example of his work, packed with yearning references to the eternal order of nature against the chaos of human life.
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If we understand miracles as actual interruptions or contraventions of the order of nature, and so of the will of God, then not only are they impossible, but they can provide no basis for knowledge of God.
