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Indian Express [India], News
Author Not Stated, 03/07/2009
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HINDUISM DOES NOT CONDEMN GAY PEOPLE: UK HINDU COUNCIL
Indian Express [India], News Author Not Stated, 03/07/2009 |
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The Hindu Council UK welcomed the Delhi High Court's historic judgement which decriminalised consensual homo sexual relations and said Hinduism does not condemn gay people.
British Hindu homosexual community will welcome the news that their brethren in India are now be able to enjoy the same freedom as they do here, Anil Bhanot, General Secretary Hindu Council UK said. It is indeed good news that people are not discriminated against because of God's laws of nature. Bhanot said the Hindu scripts describe the homosexual condition to be a "biological one, and although the scripture gives guidance to parents on how to avoid procreating a homosexual child, it does not condemn the child as unnatural. |
"Hinduism prescribes 16 ceremonies to mark each major stage in one's life span. We would usually observe the birth, name, adolescence, marriage, retirement and death ceremonies but there is a little known ceremony called the "insemination" ceremony or the Garbhadan Sanskaar, which I am sure nobody observes now-days."
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