Homosexuality

There's a thread going on right now on Tapoban.org, about the potential for same-sex relationships within the Sikh community.

I think 'AnotherSingh' sums up my thoughts almost perfectly:

We are soul. A soul is beyond gender and sexuality. It is our kaam (lust) that is a hurdle on the path to meet God. Homosexuals have this just like heterosexuals. However, God created a male and female for a reason. We must live within God's hukum. Therefore, any homosexual acts are wrong and gay marriage is clearly against Sikhi.

I agree with the above statement on a religious level, exclusively. I still believe that all levels of government should provide legal protection to homosexual couples in the same way that legal protection is provided to straight couples. (Whether they want to call it "marriage" isn't important, if they do - great, if not - whatever.)

How does any rational minded person reconcile their belief in a secular government while being against partnership legal protections for homosexuals? On what basis do you deny these legal recognitions? The only basis is that "homosexuality is wrong". Sure it is (in my personal opinion - but in my opinion LOTS of legal things are wrong), but how can a secular, church/religion-free state make that judgment?

The reasons given by most people, i.e. "it will hurt the structure of the family", "it will tear down society's moral values", "its unnatural" are so ridiculous. By that logic all of the following things should be illegal: divorce, adultery, breaking abstinence, old people getting married (they can't have kids, can they?), single parents raising or adopting kids, etc.

Anyways, everything I've wrote above was all besides the point, I wanted to raise another issue entirely:

How would a Gursikh treat the "coming out" of a gay child?

Anyways, I hope it sounds nothing like this.