http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/buddhism-and-the-politics-of-homosexuality/
I think your idea of Buddhism connected to homosexuality is
erroneous here. Specially in this part
of your article “Therefore, one who gets
attracted to the same sex has no control or ownership of that process starting
from the sight of a person to the feeling of homosexual attraction." I
think we have control over our attractions. What you should have mentioned is
desire and attachment. Buddhism wants us to practice "upeksha" or
take no side of the event or the feeling and don't hold onto anything. The reason why Buddhists or Buddhism does not discriminate
homosexuals as other religions is we accept it is as part of (or associated
with) desire. Whether it is heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, or for your
craving for any other thing comes under desire and to hold onto someone or a
thing is an attachment. Buddhists practice is to get rid of the very attachment
whatever the form it comes from.
On second part of your article, I am not sure
the connection between the political event and the very thing you say in the
first part. Apart from a Buddhist monk in a political rally and a politician
apologising for it, all that seems a political gimmick from both sides. Papers
and people are talking about completely an unnecessary event.
