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Contents:
- SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
- GAY MARRIAGE
- SIKH PARLIAMENTARIANS TAKE STANCE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
- WORLD SIKH GROUP AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BILL
SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
Jasvir Sgh is a proment Sikh voice the UK. He is also gay, and se no nflict between his sexualy and relign. * sikh gay marriage *
He is also gay - a fact that he has kept mostly private until now. From them I have received ath threats for beg gay, I have been acced on a TV statn of beg an fil and I have even had dividuals ll me up and threaten to expose me. He wanted to tell his story on his own terms, and also to send a msage to gay Sikhs facg difficulti.
"Jasvir says that the Sikh relign which he grew up wh his fay, was very foced on a central te of equaly, and says he has never felt his fah to be nflict wh his homosexualy.
Though many Sikhs see thgs differently, Jasvir says he never saw any nflict the relign's teachgs and scripture between his fah and his sexual Gu Granth Sahib, the re Sikh relig text, do not refer to homosexualy at all, but do make mentn of hbands and wiv. This has allowed Sikhs on different sis of the bate to pot to scripture as backg up their own posn on homosexualy and on same-sex unns.
GAY MARRIAGE
* sikh gay marriage *
"Sadly I know gay Sikhs who have given up their fah, or who feel their only optn was to cut their hair, and to bee ls fahful, or jt foc on their ner fah rather than spend time at the gurdwara. I'm not gog to waver om my fah but I'm also not gog to be ashamed of my sexualy, " Jasvir of Jasvir's reason for speakg out is also bee he says he had never had gay Sikh role mols, particularly upl and those who nsired themselv to be relig.
"When that weddg vio was leaked and malicly spread around social media, was the way one of my elrly relativ found out I was gay, " he says. This article is ncerned wh the legimisatn of homosexual. More so the ntext of homosexualy and the so lled same sex.
SIKH PARLIAMENTARIANS TAKE STANCE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
There is nothg new about homosexualy as a form of sexual abe. relign to discrimate agast anyone for havg homosexual. However, a self nfsed practisg homosexual would not be.
Over the years, acceptance of homosexualy has also grown India. "I'm very optimistic and have great fah the judiciary, " Ms Guswamy, whose team is reprentg six same-sex unn s urt, told the of her optimism e om readg the December 2018 judgement that crimalised gay sex - "the thg that stck me most was that the urt emphasised the right to choice of partner and that mak me very optimistic", she said.
"Homosexualy is not a disease, " the IPS said, addg that discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people uld "lead to mental health issu them" IPS statement rri some heft - a siar statement supportg crimalisg gay sex 2018 had been referred to by the Supreme Court s judgement.
WORLD SIKH GROUP AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BILL
CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Takg strong notice of the homosexual marriage acplished unr the patronage of Sri Gu Granth Sahib Sacramento (USA) last month, the SGPC appoted actg Akal Takht Sahib Jathedar Giani Harpreet Sgh has directed Sarabjeet Sgh Neel and his wife Leela to hand over the saroop of Gu Granth Sahib to the Sikh Sangat. Notably, this holy saroop was ed to perform a homosexual marriage between two mal.
Earlier, Giani Harpreet Sgh had directed the North Amerin Sikhs to trace the person who pleted relig ctoms this homosexual marriage.