EDITORIAL.- August 13 Fish Huang y You Ya-ting They celebrated their third wedding anniversary. They were married in Taiwán, a society where homosexuality is legal, but civil unions between homosexuals are not yet legalized. And it is that in this case it was a religious wedding. The union of these two women would go down in history for being The first gay Buddhist wedding. It was also officiated by another woman, the Buddhist teacher Shih Chao-hui, who, satisfied, explained to the media how the meeting with the girls had taken place: “They asked me to take measures so that I couldn't say one thing and do another, it was that simple. I knew that in the future this could bring me problems, but if they dared, who was I to selfishly protect myself? "
The tolerance of Buddhism with homosexuality has its roots in tradition, since the Buddha had ordained monks to homosexuals and in general terms do not condemn any kind of sexual orientation, it is simply considered desire and sex as forms of clinging and attachment that must be overcome to reach enlightenment.
Recently a study has been published in the Journal of Homosexuality whose conclusions are that the greater or lesser weight that religion has in a society determines the degree of acceptance of homosexuality. In the study carried out in 79 countries, profound homophobic approaches were found in all the religions analyzed, except for Buddhism. The consideration of sin and the doctrines aimed at persecuting and rejecting homosexuals is extreme in fundamentalism, where more than a condemnation, we find clear violations of human rights that reach the paroxysm of endorsing the death penalty.
Sebastian Jackle and George Wenzelberger, authors of this research emphasize that countries with similar religious traditions differ in their level of tolerance according to the impact that religion has on civil life, but especially according to the way in which education is dissociated or not.
It makes us think that it is theistic religions, those that believe in an omnipotent God, those that present more homophobic biases, while Buddhism, which many consider more a philosophy of life than a religion, tolerates any form of sexuality .
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