LGBT-affirming nature of Soka Gakkai International

All the above links are on the religion and its relations to sexuality and sexual orientation. I will provide more info and stuff to read after all the links are first posted as pre-requisite reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Ghana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Bolivia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Chile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Colombia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_Dominican_Repbulic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Peru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Macau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Hungary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Luxembourg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_New_Zealand

The links above are country specific with countries where SGI have great national organization as defined by better sites in the main site, schools run by SGI, universities run by SGI, other organizations runs by SGI, and other criteria I used to assemble the list.

The links above provide more issue on religion and LGBT issues.

Statement from me

Hi, it’s me. I’ve finished with most of the links for this article. I’m also an LGBT Buddhist via genderfluid, genderqueer, pansexual, etc status. SGI has been extremely affirming for me. As a a supporter of LGBT rights, I endorse SGI and SGI endorses me.

Manjushri and his identification with nanshoku out of compassion and wisdom are extremely important to me. He is an ideal for all LGBT Buddhists as an example of an enlightened being identified with LGBT issues. Soka Gakkai International and Soka Gakkai are organizations of Nichiren Buddhism which is a form of Japanese Buddhism, so I included this Manjushri section.

The above link goes into the history of nanshoku in Japan.

I included China as a link too because Japanese is based on Chinese for language and cultural references due to all the Japanese pronounced Chinese loan words in Japanese. Nanshoku is one such example of Japanese words from Chinese.

Buddhists in Japan, Australia, Canada, the United States support marriage equality, regardless of if the country has whatever levels of LGBT rights it has. Japan and Australia as well other countries don’t have it yet. Canada and the United States as well as other countries didn’t have it when they first supported it, but they have it now.

Religion and Taxes

If you live in a church tax society like several in Europe, please consider specifying Soka Gakkai International’s affiliate in your country as the recipient or some other Buddhist organization if Soka Gakkai International has yet to have it recognition ratified yet for church tax purposes like in Italy. I especially give extra emphasis to doing this if your country lacks in LGBT rights in any way, shape, or form. There is also donating money to Soka Gakkai International out of your regular pocket money as well in addition to any church tax or instead of it if you don’t live in such a participating country.

Dharma Match and online dating

There is a Buddhist online dating site, Dharma Match.

Other Stuff

More stuff to be added via editing later, maybe? Also, I added other links related to various other dating sites from Wikipedia.