Spnadmin thank you for the interesting piece of information about homosexuality, that is something that I will definitely follow up on and thank you for the name of the book. You have stated that you believe eastern cultures are more likely to "accept" the inevitability of homosexuality - could you just clarify why you believe this to be the case?
spnadmin, thank you very much for your post. Very interesting ideas that you have put forward, it is greatly appreciated.
I just wanted to direct everyone's attention to this interesting article that was published not long after the ideas of legalising homosexual marriage was ripe within the media. http://www.sewauk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/sikh-view-about-homosexuality-same-sex.html - this article stresses that gay marriage is a no no withing Sikhism as "It is the religious and traditional Sikh view that only the heterosexual family-unit can provide all the basic needs of growing up children." I disagree with such a statement as I believe that any homosexual couple could also provide all the basic needs of children as they mature - family units are not defined by the word heterosexual. The article further goes on to explain that "it would be against the spirit of Sikh religion to discriminate against anyone for having homosexual bias, by barring him or her from the Gurdwara". The last statement is something that I agree with but I have found it displeasing to find, through my interviews with people, that whilst they acknowledge the equality of all human beings within Sikhism somehow that does not apply to homosexuals because it is seen as wrong.
There have been points made on this forum which have been about lust and the need to control lust and sexual desire, not only for homosexuals but also heterosexuals. However, my research has been stating that homosexuality within itself barring the sexual acts of homosexuals is intrinsically wrong (something which clearly goes against the teachings of equality which our religion promotes). I interviewed my brother a while back who stated that he had no issues with homosexuality within Sikhism but that if his son was a homosexual he would severely disappointed because he would feel as if he had done something wrong!! Are we as Sikhs only accepting of homosexuality within our religion as long as it does not affect us personally?
Unfortunately .... there are backward thinking monkeys running the show.
WJKK WJKF,
"I'm really interested in seeing as to why people in our community view homosexuality as wrong".
The evidence of this Creation is that there is a divine order in place. If you observe the honeycomb, the changing of seasons, the orbits of planets and moons, the formation of crystals, the scattering of seeds, the flight of hummingbirds, the journey of salmons, the cycles of evaporation, purification and rainfall; it is all played out in awesome order.
Please consider:
Sparrows; they emerge in the spring, males find females, mate, follow an ancient, unwritten science of creating a nest. They lay eggs, incubate them, young emerge, learn to fly... and the cycle repeats.
Groundhogs; they form intricate social communities and dig elaborate underground networks. Male and female reproduce, the young are nurtured underground in nesting areas until they strike out on their own.
Tigers; they follow precise social interactions, male and female fulfill their various roles, pair off and reproduce, giving birth to tiger cubs, which, after weening, learn to hunt, and the cycle continues.
Whales, roam across the vast realm of ocean, communicate in a mysterious language they percieve even across great distances. The male whale will find a female and impregnate her with his seed and they proceed to raise and protect the young whale calf until it can manage the underwater world on its own.
You get the picture. Now please consider the homosexual. They grow up as children, eating the prescribed diet of humans, male pairs off with another male. They create a 'nest', a bed, where they engage in sex, deposit their seed in the colon. Nothing comes of it except a stinking (imagine!) mess, they then reproduce by going to adoption agencies to rear offspring.
All I'm saying, my sister, is can we agree this is an aberration, a deviance from a prescribed order? Can we acknowledge that in a world of such divine, intricate sense, this is a perversion of the Divine Way? I am not saying it's evil, that homosexuals ought to be beaten, incarcerated or pilloried. I am simply saying, in this current spirit of embracing and celebrating and parading homosexuality as 'beautiful and natural', is it wrong to view it as rather a violation of the divine way?