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As kamc nicely puts it each to their own. However, sadly, even though one would think the guy in the video would understand a minority perspective, he is not the least bit graceful against a targeted minority in his own country. In fact he is ignorant to the extreme in how he mocks Sikhi with distributing ‘having a good time’ pictures of him in a barber shop and the tenor of his piece being consistent with “good riddance”. Be a poster boy for your after look as much as you want. But if you feel you are not a Sikh, then that’s your personal issue. Don’t mix that with something considered sacred by millions of others as some thing to be tossed in the garbage. Leave Sikhi, that is your business. Insult Sikhi like that and you make it hatred toward an identifiable group. Whether it crosses legal thresholds for action, does not change that it is indeed hatred toward an identifiable group. Being a minority (gay) does not give you a greater license for hatred toward another minority (sikhs). Cloaking it in advocating other rights makes it that much more insidious. I will defend minorities including LGBT from hate and attacks. But I will not give anyone a license to attack Sikhi. So he purports to have found a place to accept himself. I suggest to him that I as a turbaned straight Sikh can more sincerely stand up for discrimination against LGBT than him. He has just found a more comfortable corner from which to hate himself and others. Wish him luck on learning more about acceptance and tolerance so he can eventually accept himself regardless of labels.

You are right, personally I would not insult anyone, I m just debating from gurmat siddant...from my understanding you can be gay, smoke weed, kill, basically do what you want but it is not gurmat- actions leading to bhagti of the supreme...

Glad to see we agree brother

Remember, Vaheguru is in everyone. If someone is gay, that means Vaheguru made them that way. Who are you to question Him?

No, uneducated in terms of thinking that homosexuality is linked to paedophilia and thinking it is a western thing, homosexuality goes as far back as the history books, as far as i'm aware, Sikhism has no specific teachings about homosexuality, if it does I would love to know, nobody, certainly not me, is making any links between Sikhi and homosexuality.

Absolutely disgusting attitude there, sorry but it's comments like these that make me embarrassed to be a Sikh let alone a human being, so much for Sikhism being a tolerant religion and accepting all, why don't you go the whole hog and just say we should behead anyone who is gay, there's a certain group in the middle east that's doing that at the moment, you might have heard of them, also to compare homosexuality with paedophilia is something i'd expect from some uneducated religious nut job, oh man, sometimes i feel sorry for the future generations.

Refuses to accept gay Sikhs. Is offended when gay people leave Sikhi. GREAT LOGIC there guys, I applaud your ability to keep people locked up in a closet. Who knows, maybe in your next lives you'll be put in a difficult position just to be consistently shunned and told you are a reprehensible human being by Sikhs of the dayal Guru.

Brother, you've basically paraphrased what I've said and made it appear as if I never made my original point. And to top it all off you've accused me of being wholly ignorant of the teachings and ethos of my religion, lol! Chalo, whatever makes you happy. Vintage JSinghz though, lmao.

I'd hardly call such insightful analysis "nit picking." It may prove to be uncomfortable reading for some, but if Sikhi is to be relevant as the decades and millenniums progress, then such introspection is needed. Dismissing such concerns in such an off-hand manner without even attempting to address any of those issues highlighted is incredibly dangerous.

Fair questions, the answers to which I find myself pondering on a daily basis. Personally speaking I think the root of most, if not all, of the issues highlighted is lack of relevant parchaar that truly gets to the core of what it is to be human, and how Sikhi can be applied in practical situations so that it makes us better human beings. The answers are available in Sikhi without a doubt, and i may be biased but i think it is a stunningly beautiful path that we find ourselves on. However, somehow change is needed to reach out to people who may have been left behind (even our so-called "own") in this world which has changed so drastically and so hurriedly. I have a few questions of my own which i'd add to the list in the original post: Have we become, inadvertently, just another organised religion of the type Guru Nanak Paatshah questioned and exposed with such clarity and reasoning (BTW, not a criticism of scriptures, which are perfect IMO, but more to do with day-to-day application of the faith)? Is it inevitable, with the passage of time, that the core message of any philosophy is dulled and diluted? In that case what needs to be done to reverse this trend?

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Believe in astrology and Sikhi do not go together. Do not waste your precious time on useless things like astrology and also according to the Sikh Rehat Maryada The Sikh will not believe in castes, untouchability, magic, omens, amulets, astrology, appeasement rituals, ceremonial hair cutting, fasts, frontal masks, sacred thread, graves and traditional death rites.

Giani Ditt did an excellent job with little resources to raise the voice of the Sikhs. The British supported Arya Samaj and Sanatan groups had to retreat after this. After facing the bullets of the British and their Mahant allies the Gurdwaras were freed again. The Khalsa schools that were set up by the Gurdawara reform and original Akali movement educated thousands of Sikhs in our religion. Since 1947 these have been in decline as the corruption of the the Indian system has taken over most Sikh orgainisations.

thanks! all .. also. do u have some proof..? if u have place tell me after that my long research of months will be finished...! Sri akaal sahai!

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Because kuriyna 30 years ago in India are very different to modern kurinya here in the UK. That is a fact. I can only base this on a database of about 300 Sikh girls; of which 2 girls - 2 out of 300 specified a turban munda, about 30 girls wrote either a turbanned or non turbanned, the rest 270 odd girls had stated they wanted a mona / non turbanned .