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**feedcomnet** · 03-31-2012, 02:37 PM

Same-sex marriage is not a trivial issue. Certainly there are more wide-reaching problems to be addressed in the world, but that does not diminish the importance of equal rights for all people, regardless of demographic factors such as sexual orientation.

As this thread is about why Buddhists should support marriage equality, I would be interested in hearing others' comments on this question: In his ~45+ years of speaking to laypeople, the Buddha would surely have come across at least one homosexual householder or couple, so why does there appear to be absolutely no explicit mention of homosexuality in the canonical texts?

03-31-2012, 02:37 PM	#7
feedcomnet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Same-sex marriage is not a trivial issue. Certainly there are more wide-reaching problems to be addressed in the world, but that does not diminish the importance of equal rights for all people, regardless of demographic factors such as sexual orientation. As this thread is about why Buddhists should support marriage equality, I would be interested in hearing others' comments on this question: In his ~45+ years of speaking to laypeople, the Buddha would surely have come across at least one homosexual householder or couple, so why does there appear to be absolutely no explicit mention of homosexuality in the canonical texts?
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