A news article dated 17 October 2023 reporting that the Akal Takht disqualified four officiants, a head granthi, a priest, a ragi and a tabla player, at Gurdwara Kalgidhar Sahib in Bathinda for five years, after they performed a same-sex wedding there on 18 September 2023. Quotes the Akal Takht Jathedar stating there is no room for same-sex marriage under Sikh tenets, and notes the Akal Takht had previously issued a religious edict against same-sex marriage in 2005 under a different Jathedar.
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Citation
PublisherOnmanorama
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2023/10/17/same-sex-marriage-priests-disqualified-bathinda.html
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Independent Indian news journalism documenting the standing edict's most recent enforcement, corroborating SikhNet's account of the edict itself. NotesCited for Khalsa's sexuality-position and its detail, the October 2023 enforcement.
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This source names The Akal Takht directly: "dated 17 October 2023 reporting that the Akal Takht disqualified four officiants, a head granthi, a priest, a ragi and a tabla player, at Gurdwara Kalgidhar Sahib in Bathinda for five years, after..."
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