It amazes me how many Sikhs follow semetic concepts. This is due to British influence to avoid being considered as a barbaric, ritualistic, superstitious, idolaterous Hindu. To be frank I think you people are forgetting that Sikhism is not a religion in the semetic sense. To reiterate what I have already said on this forum, there was once a time when namaaz was performed in HarMandir Sahib, when murti muja was just performed outside. The true message of Sikhism is unity of mankind. You can scream "we are monotheists all we like" to seem unbarbaric due to British influence and to please the Muslims, but the fact of the matter is, YOUR Guru talks about athiesm, monotheism, polytheism and duality. The same can be applied to this concept of sodomy - please show me where this concept is accepted/promoted anywhere in Sikh scriptures.
The concept of sodomy is NOT anal sex, it is "non procreative sexual acts" - masturbation, oral sex, anal sex and guess what...... KISSING! If you believe in the semetic concept of sodomy then why not accept others such as circumcision, halal/kosher meat, having a specific holy day... may be because the British did not follow some of those things? But the root cause did - Judaism. This proves my point even further that the stance against homosexuality was due to British influence.
When discussing matters like sexuality you have to separate act from desire. I am homosexual, and no hetero, no matter what pedestal of piety they put themselves on, is going to tell me that I have chosen my desire. I simply don't care. However what is a choice is acting upon that desire, and like most religions say you should, I will only engage in sexual activity with a marital framework, yes - with a man.
A few website quotes:
Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc.
A marginal homophobic trend in pre-colonial India thus became dominant in modern India. Indian nationalists, including Hindus, internalized Victorian ideals of heterosexual monogamy and disowned indigenous traditions that contravened those ideals. Nevertheless, those traditions persisted, for example, in the very visible communities of hijras, transgendered males who have a semi-sacred status and often engage in sexual relations with men.
History of sex in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However the main moral influence that led to stigmatisation of Indian sexual liberalism by Indians within India itself was the effect of the ideas of the Victorian era, in which other cultures were seen as primitive if they did not conform to the ideas of European culture. The pluralism of Hinduism, and its liberal attitudes were condemned as 'barbaric' by a colonial Europe and proof of inferiority of the East. The effects of British education, administration, scholarship of Indian history and biased literature all led to the effective 'colonization' of the Indian mind with European values. This led Indians eager to conform their religious practices and moral values to Victorian ideas of high civilisation.
