The lear of a Hdu group that is the parent anisatn of India's lg party has e out support of the gay and transgenr muny, days before the ernment is due to rpond to the Supreme Court about petns to legalise same-sex marriage.
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HDUISM AND GAYS: ACCEPTANCE, Y. APPROVAL, NO
While Hdu sacred texts do not specifilly e those terms (heterosexual and homosexual), they do distguish between procreative sexual acts (wh marriage) and non-procreative sexual acts such as oral, etc. The Hdu Amerin Foundatn, s policy brief on Hd and Homosexualy, not that Hduism do not provi a fundamental spirual reason to reject or ostracize LGBTQ dividuals, and that, “Given their herent spirual equaly, Hd should not socially ostracize LGBT dividuals, but should accept them as fellow sojourners on the path to moksha.
The Gay & Lbian Vaishnava Associatn (GALVA) highlights, s report Homosexualy, Hduism and the Third Genr, the genr fluidy of Hdu i, and not that “everythg this world is a reflectn of the origal subtle and spirual realy. Gay & Lbian Vaishnava Associatn, a nonprof relig anizatn offerg posive rmatn and support to LGBTQI Vaishnavas and Hd, their iends, and other terted Amerin Foundatn, an advocy anizatn promotg human digny, mutual rpect, and pluralism. For earlier perds, cludg Hdu scriptur, legal, medil, and erotic treatis, lerature, and art, see the separate Oxford Biblgraphi article Homoeroticism Hduism.
In 2016, Dattatreya Hosabale, senr lear of the BJP’s ally, the Hdu anizatn Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the world’s largt volunteer anizatn, stated that homosexualy should be crimalized.