The Dalai Lama told Larry Kg that gay marriage is "OK." Is this a reversal of his prev posn, that homosexual sex is "misnduct"?" emprop="scriptn
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- DALAI LAMA VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?
- ‘DALAI LAMA URG “FULL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL,” CLUDG GAYS’ (1997)
- DALAI LAMA SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
- DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
DALAI LAMA VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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I did not have the Dalai Lama beg outed as a gay pedophile on my bgo rd. The Dalai Lama has e out support of gay marriage, sayg was “OK” and a personal affair for people of the same sex to m to each other. Ultimately, the Dalai Lama, who like all Tibetan Monks is celibate himself, said gay marriage was up to each ernment and was ultimately "dividual bs.
DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?
On June 19, 1996, Dennis Conk reported the Bay Area Reporter on the recent meetg between the fourteenth Dalai Lama and 'lbian and gay Buddhists, clergy… * dalai lama gay rights *
”He also nmned bullyg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny. Although there is no general nsens wh regard to sexual orientatn and genr inty wh Buddhism, overall the third precept is most often referenced when discsg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer issu. Yet a 1997 prs nference he mented that “om a Buddhist pot of view [lbian and gay sex] is generally nsired sexual misnduct.
‘DALAI LAMA URG “FULL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL,” CLUDG GAYS’ (1997)
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In a March 2014 segment on Larry Kg Now, a televisn seri available through on-mand digal televisn work Ora TV, His Hols the Dalai Lama said gay marriage is "OK. " In light of prev statements by His Hols that homosexual sex amounts to "sexual misnduct, " this seemed to be a reversal of his prr view. His basic posn all along has been that there's nothg wrong wh homosexual sex unls vlat the precepts of one's relign.
Larry Kg: What do you thk of the whole emergg gay qutn? Prev Statement About Homosexualy. The late AIDS activist Steve Pkd wrote an article for the March 1998 issue of the Buddhist journal Shambhala Sun, tled “Acrdg to Buddhist Tradn: Gays, Lbians and the Defn of Sexual Misnduct.
DALAI LAMA SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
However, Pkd wrote, a meetg wh members of the San Francis gay muny 1998, the Dalai Lama said, "A sexual act is emed proper when the upl e the ans tend for sexual terurse and nothg else, " and then went on to scribe heterosexual as the only proper e of ans. Teachers separated by distance and language barriers often me to their own nclns about thgs, and that's what happened wh homosexualy. Some Buddhist teachers some parts of Asia cid homosexualy was sexual misnduct, but others other parts of Asia accepted as no big al.
It's possible the Dalai Lama has no personal anim toward homosexualy, but he tak his role as guardian of the tradn very serly. But then for a non-believer, that is up to them, " he's basilly sayg that there's nothg wrong wh homosexual sex unls vlat some relig vow you have taken.
Other schools of Buddhism -- Zen, for example -- are very acceptg of homosexualy, so beg a gay Buddhist isn't necsarily a problem. On June 19, 1996, Dennis Conk reported the Bay Area Reporter on the recent meetg between the fourteenth Dalai Lama and ‘lbian and gay Buddhists, clergy, and human rights activists’:.
DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
“The relig lear said at the prs nference that he had prevly been asked his views on gay marriage, and said that such social sanctn of gay relatnships ‘has to be judged the ntext of the society self and the laws and social norms.