The Dalai Lama took his first public stance on gay marriage Thursday, llg "okay" durg an onle terview wh Larry Kg.
Contents:
- DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?
- DALAI LAMA VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
- DALAI LAMA SAYS GAY MARRIAGE IS 'OK'
- HE'S COOL WH GAY MARRIAGE (KDA)
- DALAI LAMA SAYS NO PROBLEM WH GAY MARRIAGE
- DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?
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 * dalai lama on gay *
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 VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
The Dalai Lama took his first public stance on gay marriage Thursday, llg "okay" durg an onle terview wh Larry Kg. * dalai lama on gay *
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.
DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
The Dalai Lama has clarified his posn on the moraly of homosexualy before meetg wh gay Buddhist lears. The exiled Tibetan lear said that... * dalai lama on gay *
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.
DALAI LAMA SAYS GAY MARRIAGE IS 'OK'
When His Hols speaks up about world issu, people pay attentn. The Dalai Lama voiced his support for gay marriage durg his latt tour of the Uned Stat, llg "dividuals' bs." The self-scribed "simple, Buddhist monk" is… * dalai lama on gay *
Other schools of Buddhism -- Zen, for example -- are very acceptg of homosexualy, so beg a gay Buddhist isn't necsarily a problem. I did not have the Dalai Lama beg outed as a gay pedophile on my bgo rd. 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.
HE'S COOL WH GAY MARRIAGE (KDA)
Yet a 1997 prs nference he mented that “om a Buddhist pot of view [lbian and gay sex] is generally nsired sexual misnduct. 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.
”He also nmned bullyg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.
DALAI LAMA SAYS NO PROBLEM WH GAY MARRIAGE
Jam’s subject was the Dalai Lama’s views on gay marriage, which, as he rightly discsed, are que a plited matter.
DALAI LAMA SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
The cultural and relig assumptns of Wtern gay rights advot (or, for that matter, Wtern opponents of gay marriage). One uld argue that the Dalai Lama has as much right to mand that gay rights advot get over their “polyphobia” and start explicly agatg for Amerin ernment legal regnn of polygamy as they have to mand he get rid of his “homophobia.