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Jasvir Sgh is a proment Sikh voice the UK. He is also gay, and se no nflict between his sexualy and relign.

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Giani Jogr Sgh Vedanti, the hight temporal thory to some Sikhs, recently nmned homosexualy while remdg visg Sikh-Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) of their relig duty to oppose same-sex marriage.

[1] In a report published March 2005, Vedanti said, "The basic duty of Sikh MPs Canada should be to support laws that stop this kd of practice [homosexualy], bee there are thoands of Sikhs livg Canada, to ensure that Sikhs do not fall prey to this practice. The supreme Sikh relig body, the Akal Takht, has issued an edict nmng gay marriage, and Vedanti's words were echoed by Manj Sgh Kalkatta, another highly rpected Sikh preacher who ss on the erng body of the Goln Temple, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commtee. The same Sikhs believe that Gu Nanak's emphasis on universal equaly and brotherhood is fundamentally support of the human rights of homosexuals.

Views on homosexualy tend not to be a primary ncern Sikh teachgs, as the universal goal of a Sikh is to have no hate or animosy to any person, regardls of race, ste, lor, creed, genr, or sex.

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Many Sikhs who have homosexual sir will try to overe what they believe to be lt by marryg a member of the oppose sex and havg children.

Like liberals om other fahs and backgrounds, Sikhs who support homosexualy believe that 's not unnatural, but is normal for a mory of adults. The Sikhs strs that homosexualy is not discsed nor specifilly banned any of the wrgs of the Gu, and that the fay liftyle the Gu enurag n be cultivated by two members of the same sex.

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It was a subject which had aroed the tert of the general public, and var ter-related issu were beg discsed, such as whether such marriag would have to take place relig plac of member of the Sikh muny Canada were ncerned that they may have to allow gay marriag to take place gurdwaras, and so they lobbied the SGPC and the Jathedar of the Akal Takht as to guidance on this subject.

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Followg this pronouncement om the Akal Takht, the Canadian Prime Mister Pl Mart ncelled his vis to Amrsar, and although he never gave official reasons as to why he ncelled at such short notice, some mentators believed that was directly related to the edict [7] put the issue of Indian-fluenced attus to homosexualy to ntext, has to be noted that homosexualy is illegal India unr the Penal Co troduced by the Brish Raj the Victorian era [8]. It is well documented that homosexualy existed India at the time of the Gus, and that there were well-known gay sats or relig men who were alive at the time of the Gus and who were known to the Gus [12].

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. "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.

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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.

"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.

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