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**DF9sLGSU** · 03-31-2012, 10:11 PM

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?

I guess one answer -- and this seems to be Ajahn Sujato's view -- is that the Buddha didn't see homosexuality as an ethical/moral problem and therefore there was no reason for him to single it out for discussion.

03-31-2012, 10:11 PM	#10
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	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? I guess one answer -- and this seems to be Ajahn Sujato's view -- is that the Buddha didn't see homosexuality as an ethical/moral problem and therefore there was no reason for him to single it out for discussion.
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