Today the Supreme Court heard arguments about gay marriage, and so, a timely update on the climate of same-sex marriage acceptance across religns,
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THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY
A gay Buddhist monk talks about his sexualy and relign. * gay and buddhism *
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. In fact, Dalai Lama has e out (exce the pun) and said that om a Buddhist pot of view lbian and gay sex is nsired sexual misnduct.
BUDDHIST AND GAY?
Redisverg Buddhism’s LGBT history of gay monks, homoerotic samurai, and genr-nonnformg practners and gods * gay and buddhism *
So answer to the two qutns posed at the begng of this piece, I believe homosexualy should not be forbidn Buddhism, and homosexuals should not be ma to feel guilty for lovg someone of the same sex. I also believe homosexualy should not be regard as sexual misnduct if is not g harm, and is lovg and nsensual. I grew up Europe and sce I am part Danish/part Turkish, I was raised wh the Abrahamic monotheistic fahs and their views on homosexualy.
VIEWS ON GAY PEOPLE AND BUDDHISM?
As a gay man, I’d like to know how Buddhism views LGBTQ people. I’m not terted jog any relign that disapprov of who I am. * gay and buddhism *
The robt fellow held my ey wh an tense, almost sctisg gaze, when I asked him if Siddhartha ever talked about homosexualy. ”In the time of the Buddha, there were no homosexuals, so our great teacher did not mentn anythg about this; hence is difficult to discs the subject om a Buddhist pot of view.
So I am a gay man, 21, om the UK. I live wh my partner and pug dog :). I was wonrg on what do Buddhists believe about gay people? * gay and buddhism *
Bee of this, a subsequent life, you might be rernated as neher a real man, nor a woman, but a homosexual _ an ‘ between’, ” he ntued. The lecturer then went on to elaborate on Thuriya’s exposn regardg why homosexualy uld be ed by bad karma:”This might sound sexist to you, but Buddhism the hight physil state one n be reborn to is that of a man.
Surely there are lots of gay people who live enjoyable liv wh plenty of material posssns, a partner they love, children they re for and the eedom to be who they really are. If gay people often are faced wh tolerance, if they are kept om achievg certa liberti life and if they stggle wh themselv bee of their preference, uld be nsired they are not at ease and unable to fd peace, ” he explaed. If I, pecially beg a straight man wh Mlim roots, was to publicly announce that homosexualy led to sufferg and was fact ed by sexual misnduct, I would be nsired a ‘gay hater’.