A news article by Sarah Lubman in the San Jose Mercury News, dated 23 December 2001, reporting that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi taught that homosexuality shows a dirty, abnormal psychology and a loss of the ability to reason, and that in a 1998 lecture in Switzerland he stated homosexuals would be eliminated by the gods; the article also reports that Bay Area Representative Anna Eshoo withdrew her own co-signature from a letter nominating Li for the Nobel Peace Prize after learning of his statements, writing to the Nobel Institute that his statements were offensive to her and counter to her core beliefs. Read through a Cult Education Institute mirror since the original is no longer live at the publisher's own site.
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A major daily newspaper's original reporting, naming a specific public official's reaction and its own basis; the original is read here through an independent archival mirror because the publisher's own copy is no longer live, and its account is corroborated by the American Humanist Association's independently sourced open letter. NotesCited for Falun Gong's sexuality-position and its detail.
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PublisherSan Jose Mercury News
Publication Year2001
URLhttps://culteducation.com/group/1254-falun-gong/6819-a-chinese-battle-on-us-soil.html
Source Typejournalism
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This source names Falun Gong directly: "dated 23 December 2001, reporting that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi taught that homosexuality shows a dirty, abnormal psychology and a loss of the ability to reason, and that in a 1998 lecture in..."
This source names Li Hongzhi directly: "reporting that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi taught that homosexuality shows a dirty, abnormal psychology and a loss of the ability to reason, and that in a 1998 lecture in Switzerland he stated..."
This source names Mercury directly: "by Sarah Lubman in the San Jose Mercury News, dated 23 December 2001, reporting that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi taught that homosexuality shows a dirty, abnormal psychology and a loss of the..."
This source names Switzerland directly: "reason, and that in a 1998 lecture in Switzerland he stated homosexuals would be eliminated by the gods; the article also reports that Bay Area Representative Anna Eshoo withdrew her own..."
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