ISKCON Cultural Journal Update: The Influence of Gay Advocacy in ISKC

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> The idea is similar to Srila Prabhupada often engaging in the

> 'sport' of debating on his morning walks. Sometimes he would get

> his disciples to take the role of the scientist or mayavadi etc.,

> or indeed sometimes he would do this himself.

 

 

What is being proposed is hardly comparable to SP's morning walk

conversations, but is, rather, a serious formal debate by the leaders of

ISKCON, some of whom have already advanced considerably in their sympathy

towards the gay position and who will argue in favor of many of the gay

community's arguments.

It is pointless to have a debate on any topic by leading devotees without

having some conclusion, and if a meeting takes place on the gay issue

without a conclusion it will only lend credibility to the gay faction since

so many points will be left unanswered. So, it will become a platform to

divide ISKCON, since each devotee will hold his opinion, with so many

thinking that we have to update SP's opinions, (in the fashion of Mukunda

Goswami, " what SP said is not as important as what he would say...etc") and

the gays will have gained a foot in the door of public debate at the

leadership level. "In like a needle, out like a plow"... it has already

happened in karmi society by beginning like this and it will progress in

ISKCON in a similar way.

Therefore I strongly suggest that any such foolish debate should be avoided

at all costs and that the existing GBC statement concerning illicit sex,

coupled with SP's own statements about illicit sex and especially homosex,

should remain as the final word in which all potential and implied policies

regarding expression of sexuality in spiritual life reside.

 

YS PD