Dear Editor:
In his misinformed letter (Future predictions, Letter to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 6) trying to justify homophobia, Larry Bennett attempts to lump every religion into his misconceived notion of what religions teach about homosexuality.
By saying that all Sikhs consider homosexuality to be a sin, he is saying that I believe that homosexuality is a sin.
Mr. Bennett is mistaken on many levels in his letter, but I will address just one of his many erroneous statements. In Sikhism, it is a sin to hurt the feelings of another person and to inflict undue suffering on other beings (be they human or animal). Homosexuality is not mentioned, just as heterosexuality is not mentioned in Sikhism. If any of you anti-LGBTQ people like to identify yourselves as Sikh, Christian, human being, male (or whatever you like to label yourselves) and hurt the feelings of others by proclaiming homosexuality to be a sin, please do not claim to represent me. Please take personal responsibility for your overtly expressed homophobia.
Harmel Guram, Burnaby
