Falun Gong is homophobic

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Falun Gong is homophobic

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Earlier this week I went out f or f ish and chips with my friend Andrew, his husband Alex, and our buddy Margaret. We'd heard good things

about Dundas Fish & Chips located at 2077 Dundas St. in East Vancouver and decided to try it out.

"I just go tta warn you that the owners are Falun Gong people," said Andrew. I f igured he'd learned that f rom some wonderf ully in-depth

discussion with the o wner. He is, af ter all, quite the so cial butterf ly.

"Oh well. I don't think it' ll be a pro blem," I to ld him. "If they don't preach to us I probably won't even say anything!"

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An advert isement f or Falun Gong is prominent ly displayed next to the sign o f of Dundas Fish & Chips

When we arrived at the restaurant I quickly realised the owners didn't need to tell Andrew a damn thing. The restaurant was plastered with

Falun Gong posters and signs. They also had a table near the entrance with Falun Gong literature and video as well as a petition for

customers to sign.

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My friends Margaret and Alex enjoy their beverages while waiting f or their meal at Dundas Fish & Chips. Andrew has already received his won

ton soup.

"I don't do religion in the morning or o n an empty st omach," said Margaret who t hought it was all kind of creepy.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a religious o rganisatio n founded in China in 1992. Some of t heir fo llowers describe it as a

cultivation of the central tenets o f truthf ulness, co mpassion and to lerance. The practice of Falun Daf a also includes meditation, qi-go ng

exercise as well as the moral teachings of their f ounder Li Hongzhi.

Falun Gong presents itself as an organisation concerned about human rights, particularly their own. They regularly stage protests, and

campaigns t o raise awareness abo ut t he human rights o f Falun Gong f ollowers in the Peoples Republic of China.

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A large Falun Go ng paint ings in the restaurant .

He has also said that "repulsive homosexual behaviour" bespeaks o f a f ilthy, deviant s tate of mind that lacks rationality.

Li and his f ollowers predictably use insane superstition t o justify their claims. The writings of this "cultivation o f practice" make unsupported

claims about the existence of deities who have a real hate-o n f or gay people.

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"Let me tell you, if I weren't teaching this Fa today, gods' f irst t arget o f annihilation would be homosexuals," Li said at the Fa Conf erence in

Geneva, Switzerland in 1998. "It's not me who would destroy them, but gods."

Falun Gong stickers and petition at the till

He went on to claim that humans were created by "the gods" who also set o ut st andards o f behaviour and that gay people, not terrorist s o r

murderers, are their number one target f or divine incineration.

"When human beings overstep those boundaries, they are no longer called human beings, though they still assume the outer appearance of

a human," he said. "So gods can't tolerate their existence and will destroy them."

I have no intention or desire of convincing Falun Gong practitioners that they espouse a very homophobic philosophy but I think those gay-

positive people who would support t hem should know the t ruth.

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Somebody wrote "FALUN DAFA IS A HOMOPHOBIC CULT" on the petition! I wonder who that was...

They've managed to get support f rom politically progres sive people, including politicians, who are probably unaware of the group's anti-gay

stance. Many of these politicians support gay rights and some of them, including Bill Siksay and Libby Davies, are openly gay or lesbian

themselves.

Siksay, who was my MP, chaired an all-part y group called "Parliamentary Friends of Falun Gong" which set o ut t o "f os ter a bet terunderstanding of the practice of Falun Gong among Parliamentarians."

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Oh yeah, they also had foo d at t he restaurant. It made three of us sick. Perhaps it's part o f god's plan fo r annihilating gay people!

Diarrhea fuel. I had halibut and fr ies and Andrew had a double cheeseburger with two eggs and onion rings .

(For some comments, Nathaniel says)

If you're going to go of f and say gay people (or whoever) are inhuman or degenerate you better have something better to back it up with

than the "the go ds said so " unless you intend to provide evidence that your gods do , in f act, exist. Otherwise you're just making shit up and

in the case of Li, he's making shit up that's quite harmful.

In Vancouver it's not unusual fo r restaurant o wners t o put up so me display of their religion or f aith but usually the display is limited to a

painting, statue, or small shrine. At the Dundas, however, they were clearly using the restaurant to proselytize. And while I've also witnessedthat at other restaurants I have never been to an restaurant (even church restaurants) where so much of the wall space was covered with

religious pro paganda. It was downright creepy.

I never said that Falun Gong pro tes ted gay marriage. And yeah, a rational personal might suppo se that a group of people who get killed f or

their political/religious belief s would think twice bef ore advocat ing teachings that f urther malign a marginalised population.

(nathaniel.ca/blog, April 14 , 2012)

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