Taiwan women in same-sex Buddhist wedding

[Picanto]

TAOYUAN, Taiwan - Two women tied the knot on Saturday in Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding, a move rights groups hope will help make the island become the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

 

Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-ting, both wearing traditional white bridal gowns, said "I do" in front of a Buddha statue and exchanged prayer beads rather than rings in a monastery in Taoyuan, in northern Taiwan. Nearly 300 Buddhists chanted sutras to seek blessings for the couple, both aged 30.

 

Shih Chao-hui, a female Buddhist master who presided over the ritual, hailed it as a historic moment.

 

"We are witnessing history. The two women are willing to stand out and fight for their fate... to overcome social discrimination," said Shih, a well-known advocate for social justice.

 

"Some people might find it astounding (a woman performing the ceremony) but Buddhism does not engage in ideological struggles and I am used to strange looks from my own experience in the social movement," she said.

 

The couple's parents were notably absent from the ceremony, in an indication of the pressure facing some homosexuals and their families.

 

[Albeniz]

watched it on CNA today.

[Tjkbeluga]

Is this allowed in buddhism?

 

 

[Throttle2]

so both are wives?

 

they address each other as lao bo?

[Mahjong74]

Is this allowed in buddhism?

 

 

why not? Gay pastor also can marry his gay partner.

 

 

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...806-363832.html

[Damienic]

Is this allowed in buddhism?

 

Buddhism does not openly speak out against homosexuality from what I know.

[Damienic]

so both are wives?

 

they address each other as lao bo?

 

instead of lao po, they can perhaps address each other as "dear"??

[Albeniz]

Strange. Would they be given a valid marriage certificate?

Edited August 11, 2012 by Albeniz

[Albeniz]

instead of lao po, they can perhaps address each other as "dear"??

 

If they adopt a child, which one is going to be addressed as "papa" or "mama"?

Edited August 11, 2012 by Albeniz

[Damienic]

If they adopt a child, which one is going to be addressed as "papa" or "mama"?

 

The butch to be addressed as "papa" and the more feminine lady as "mama"??

[Gitanic]

Then who take the front position and who take the hind position?

[Porche]

both also quite nice looking, always tot lesbian one should be butch...this is a rare case

[Kurtselva]

If they adopt a child, which one is going to be addressed as "papa" or "mama"?

 

Hope they won't adopt one cos it might ruin the child's life..starting from school

[Streamstyle]

wasted....

 

[Evillusion]

i volunteer be their man-maid! [laugh]

Edited August 11, 2012 by Eviilusion

[Ysc3]

[Raymondism]

Buddhism does not openly speak out against homosexuality from what I know.

 

and if anyone asked a buddhist monk for blessings... they dun care whether u r straight or gay, hvg period or not, whether vegetarian or not.. buddhist or not....they will bless u anyway

[Hondacub777]

Then who take the front position and who take the hind position?

Sicssors leg position.