By coincidence (considering my posts on gay partner vows in a Japanese Buddhist temple) this Shiseido TV advertisement showed up today. See if you can guess the point before the ad reveals it?
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Asians are not necessarily governed by western concepts
by fulltimestudent inby coincidence (considering my posts on gay partner vows in a japanese buddhist temple) this shiseido tv advertisement showed up today.
see if you can guess the point before the ad reveals it?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3db6pmq-8.
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Gay Marriage - A Japanese Buddhist shows some Christians the right way
by fulltimestudent inbuddhist priest invites same-sex couples to marry at his temple.
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huffpost japan.
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In August 1549, the first three Catholic missionaries arrived in Japan. In the next 10 months, it is claimed, 150 Japanese accepted Catholic Christianity and were baptised. Missionary Francis Xavier wrote back to the church in Goa (India) that the Japanese were the most likely people in Asia to accept Christianity.
But, writes Tsuneo Watanabe, in an essay entitled, "Jesuit Missionaries Against the Sin of Sodom:"
"One thing, however, made the missionaries angry, (and Tsuneo quotes from various Jesuit correspondence), " The first evil we see among them is indulgence in the sins of the flesh ... The gravest of their sins is the most depraved of carnal desires, so that we many not name it.
The young men and their partners, not thinking it serious, do not hide it. They even honour each other for it and speak openly of it."That "sin" that cant be named, is of course, the sin of sodom. Which is a sad commentary on the Bible scholarship of the Catholic missionaries, for the sin of Sodom defined at Ezekiel 16:49 is:
Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. (NIV)
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Gay Marriage - A Japanese Buddhist shows some Christians the right way
by fulltimestudent inbuddhist priest invites same-sex couples to marry at his temple.
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huffpost japan.
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It's interesting that Catholic missionaries enjoyed a lot of success at first, but in the end they were all massacred.
Two reasons can be isolated for the country turning against the Christian church so that even today, (even after the American occupation of Japan), there are only 1%-2% of the population that are Christian.
What are the two reasons? Arrogance informs both reasons. The first is the missionaries arrogant attitude to Buddhism and the second is their arrogant attitude about same sex relationships.
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Gay Marriage - A Japanese Buddhist shows some Christians the right way
by fulltimestudent inbuddhist priest invites same-sex couples to marry at his temple.
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huffpost japan.
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The final section of the report (not cited above) gives some background to same sex relationships in Japan.
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""The (Catholic) missionary Luís Fróis recorded that in the Warring States period, daimyo [lords] had sexual relationships with their pages. Same-sex love is depicted in the shunga [erotic] art of the Edo period, and was accepted," Kawakami said.
"This changed during [the Meiji period]. During the ‘Leave Asia, Join Europe’ phase, the definition of a 'civilized country' as a Protestant-based Western nation was blindly imported, and it came to be thought that gay love was a sin. If we look carefully at history, we can see that pre-Meiji Japan was 'gay friendly,'" he added." -
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Gay Marriage - A Japanese Buddhist shows some Christians the right way
by fulltimestudent inbuddhist priest invites same-sex couples to marry at his temple.
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huffpost japan.
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So what's his story:
Same-sex couples from around the world come to Kyoto to marry at Shunkoin temple
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The Huffington Post (Japan) continues his story:
(Note: I've highlighted the first sentence because that's the crux of the problem. So many Christians really have no concept of human rights.)
"We mustn't act as if it's all right to cast the LGBT community aside because they're a minority group," says priest at Japan's Shunkoin temple.
Same-sex marriages are not legal in Japan. However, there is a Japanese Buddhist templewhere lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and members of other sexual minority groups can wed: the Shunkoin temple in Hanazono, Kyoto. Same-sex couples from around the world visit the temple.
How did the Shunkoin temple start holding LGBT wedding ceremonies? HuffPost Japan posed the question to the Rev. Taka Zenryu Kawakami, deputy head priest at Shunkoin.
The priest admits he was prejudiced against the LGBT community when he was younger. "I am not gay myself, and there were no LGBT people around me when I was growing up. The old me was prejudiced against sexual minorities," he said.
Kawakami was born into a family that has produced Shunkoin chief priests for generations. After graduating from the Hanazono School (which is affiliated with Rinzai Buddhism's Myoshinji temple), he studied English at Rice University in Texas, and then enrolled at Arizona State University.
"One day I was having tea with a friend, and a person walked past who you could tell at a glance was gay. I made a discriminatory comment. My friend replied, 'I'm gay, too. Is that the way you feel about me, Taka?’” Kawakami recounted.
“When he said that, I remembered being discriminated against as an Asian person when I traveled in the South," he said. "Especially because I had been the victim of prejudice myself, I felt terrible shame, and I completely changed my position. As I changed, my friends began to open up to me about the fact that they were gay or lesbian."
Kawakami majored in religious studies and psychology at Arizona State, and lived in the U.S. for approximately eight years. In 2004, he returned to Japan to start his ascetic training at the Zuiganji temple in Miyagi prefecture, since having experience as a priest would help prepare him for graduate school.
In 2006, Kawakami finished his training and returned to Shunkoin, where he had the opportunity to give an American acquaintance zazen meditation classes in English. Word got out about the classes, and tourists started calling. In 2007, Kawakami officially became deputy head priest at Shunkoin, and started offering meditation classes to more and more English speakers.
The first person to ask about same-sex wedding ceremonies was a woman from Spain who had visited Shunkoin many times to learn about zazen meditation.
"'Can you hold wedding ceremonies here?' she asked me," Kawakami recalled. "I told her, ‘Yes, we can.' Then she said, 'I have one more question. My partner is a woman.' And I responded, 'That's fine.'"
Kawakami looked over the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism, and confirmed that such a wedding would not contradict scripture. He expected to be criticized for holding the ceremony, but was also sure that his willingness to hold same-sex wedding ceremonies at the temple would support the LGBT cause by paving the way for more acceptance in Japanese society.
"The reasons why LGBT people are not accepted are different in the West than in Japan," Kawakami said. "In Japan, there is no religious pressure from groups like Christian conservatives. So you don’t see the same sort of strong opposition as in the West. On the other hand, in Japan, there is an underlying pressure to conform, a sense of ‘We are all the same; we are all heterosexual’ -- and that makes it hard to live as an LGBT person."
"I thought that if places such as my temple could show that we actively accept same-sex marriage, it would draw more attention to the problem," he added.
In 2010, the Spanish couple held a public wedding ceremony.
In the spring of 2014, Shunkoin partnered with Hotel Granvia Kyoto to offer Buddhist wedding package tours for LGBT couples. Five couples signed up that year. So far in 2015, eight couples have come to pledge their love, Kawakami said. Six of the couples were from abroad, and two of the couples were Japanese -- two men, and two women.
"A lot of the couples are women. This was the first year we had a couple where both individuals were Japanese, which made me happy. I hope we get even more couples like them in the future," Kawakami said.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shunkoin-temple-gay-marriage_56290990e4b0aac0b8fbeb01
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Gay Marriage - A Japanese Buddhist shows some Christians the right way
by fulltimestudent inbuddhist priest invites same-sex couples to marry at his temple.
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huffpost japan.
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Buddhist Priest Invites Same-Sex Couples To Marry At His Temple
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Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body
by fulltimestudent inlink.
why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.
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neverendingjourney : The news story in the OP is several years old.
Yeah, you're right!
I saw the recent date on the link, and thought it a new story.
My apologies, for not doing a full check on the story.
And, interestingly, some of the other mentions on the internet say that the gentlemen in question has since 'come out' as gay.
Anyway, its been interesting to see how homophobic reactions are shaped and preserved.
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Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body
by fulltimestudent inlink.
why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.
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Smile!
I can understand your feelings krejames when you posted:
OMG you're one of THOSE. And what exactly is the "gay lifestyle"? Does that mean that when my TV channel broadcasts shows like Holiday Reps (shows with lots of young drunk, vomitting, naked, straight people who have sex in the street and in nightclubs while throwing up over each other in various European holiday resorts) that they are forcing the heterosexual lifestyle in my face? Please stop with the hypocrisy or take your homophobia somewhere where it's appreciated. Rant over.
But try to understand what Actigall UR means when he says:
I don't hate gays for who they are but I hate having their lifestyle forced in my face. I believe this sentiment reflects most who oppose gay marriage and the like.
There's been a lot of research on these attitudes, some of which I've posted before.
We may assume that he means that he gets upset, when he sees two men walking hand in hand, or hugging or kissing. Why? The research indicates that heterosexual men do not generally get upset over such things, but men who are attracted to the same sex, but have deeply buried their feelings for men and persuaded themselves that those feelings are a sin or so do get upset. In other words they suffer from an internalised homophobia. My gayxjw friend (whom I guess I defend here) was once confronted with a ranting street preacher, going on and on about the sin of Sodom (which he did not understand at all). My friend turned to him and said, "Oh! I see the gay fairy kissed you too."
The guy went into meltdown.
So when you see someone like Actigall UR, you can feel sympathetic. He's having a difficult time dealing with his innermost, deeply buried feelings. If he sees two blokes kissing, he's ripped apart inside. He needs sympathy, not confrontation, as difficult as that may be in the circumstance of centuries of Christian hatred expressed toward gay people.
I think you'll understand
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Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body
by fulltimestudent inlink.
why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.
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Sofia Lose: I know of an elder, back in the late 80s that participated in a disfellowshipping committee while in engaging himself in the worst adultery plot ever!
Some have amazing cheek. They are all dead now, but in Sydney, a long time congregation servant (the old,old arrangement) carried on a 20 year affair with his sister-in-law, who wouldn't leave her husband, until their kids had grown up. His wife suspected the affair and reproached him. He just laughed and said, "whose going to believe you?" The time came when the sister-in-law's kids were grown up, and the two, now middle-aged lovers, eloped, causing the biggest scandal in Sydney's long history of scandals. But within a few years they were re-instated, and a few more years, well, he's an elder.
Allah is merciful !!!! hahahahahaha!
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Beyond comment: Violent child-sex crimes that are shocking India
by fulltimestudent intwo indian girls, aged two and five, raped in new delhi.
source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/manhunt-launched-after-two-indian-girls-raped-in-new-delhi/6863212.
reaction of the authorities (from the same report).
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Vidiot: There is awareness now like never before, and it is making a difference.
"God" bless the Information Age.It will hopefully make a difference in the future, Vidiot, but on current trends it will be a long time.
The sad fact is that India has not progressed, as it could have done. Illiteracy, a prerequisite for internet usage is still a problem. Further, since basic education will be in local languages and/or Hindi (unlikely to be in English) and web information and/or TV availability in rural areas may not feature the same information that you could find in the large cities catering for the well-off middle classes, information may filter slowly.
The great majority of rapes occur in the 600,000+ rural villages and likely involve upper caste young men, whose families have influence and authority in their locality, they choose to humiliate and assault young women from a lower or lowest cast (dalits). There's a great deal of hypocrisy in this, they wont touch a a low caste person (they become ritually unclean) but they are prepared to f**k them. That's a rotten attitude! Until India can get rid of caste superstition, there may be little chance of real progress in this issue.
The internet hardly reaches these villages. To start with, the villages people are usually poor, and internet access may not be available anyway. A 2013 report on Quartz was headed, "Why only 3% of India has home internet access."
The article commenced with a quote: "Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt doesn’t think much of India’s internet strategy, telling a television channel that the country “is well behind in the web services model that the rest of the world is adopting.”
Quartz continued, " But it’s still notable that only 150 million Indians have internet access in a country of 1.2 billion. That’s significantly lower than other emerging markets. Consider this Gallup survey from January, which polled citizens around the globe about whether they have home internet access: While only 3% of Indians answered “yes,” in China, 34% confirmed home internet access, with 51% penetration in Russia and 40% in Brazil."
I alluded to low literacy rates, here's a graphic map to demonstrate the problem. Its based on the official 2011 census:
And guess what? Who is less likely to go to school? No prizes if you guessed girls.
To exacerbate the problem, families are well aware of the rape problem, and one protective action they take, is to keep their daughters at home.
More, since the upper caste young men tend to be the worst perpetrators, and its their parents that dominate the villages, the police in rural areas tend to take NO action. And, the upper caste families are often quite prepared to take violent action against any low caste family that dares to protest.
Its sad!
