His Holiness...
Both the Dalai Lama and the Successor of Peter are called "His Holiness," although surprisingly, the Catholic "His Holiness" wasn't the one condemning oral and anal sex as an ordered way of sexual conduct in a recent interview.
The title of the blog post says it all:
Religious right wing homophobic bigotry from no less than the Dalai Lama.
"A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it," the Dalai Lama continues, warming to his theme. "But the purpose of sex is reproduction, according to Buddhism. The other holes don't create life. I don't mind - but I can't condone this way of life."
And the highly-quotable sure-shot from later in the blog entry:
Western elites don't realize how alone we actually are in the world in our belief that sex is an utterly private activity that can be disassociated from commitment, biological constitution, community, gender, just about anything. We want to fashion our decadence into a moral crusade for human rights, as if the wealthy gay urbanites in San Fransisco share solidarity with the oppressed of Darfur, and we are outraged when the rest of the world doesn't buy the package.
The title of the blog post says it all:
Religious right wing homophobic bigotry from no less than the Dalai Lama.
"A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it," the Dalai Lama continues, warming to his theme. "But the purpose of sex is reproduction, according to Buddhism. The other holes don't create life. I don't mind - but I can't condone this way of life."
And the highly-quotable sure-shot from later in the blog entry:
Western elites don't realize how alone we actually are in the world in our belief that sex is an utterly private activity that can be disassociated from commitment, biological constitution, community, gender, just about anything. We want to fashion our decadence into a moral crusade for human rights, as if the wealthy gay urbanites in San Fransisco share solidarity with the oppressed of Darfur, and we are outraged when the rest of the world doesn't buy the package.
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