An article by Jeff Wilson in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, published online June 2015, surveying same-sex marriage across American Buddhist communities. On Soka Gakkai specifically, it states the organization went from treating homosexuality as a condition to be addressed through Buddhist practice to performing large numbers of same-sex marriage ceremonies for its members, a shift the article dates as complete by the end of the 1990s, alongside comparable shifts among American Tibetan, Theravada and Zen teachers in the same period; the ceremonies took place at a time when the state did not yet legally recognize the unions.
Facts
Citation
PublisherTricycle: The Buddhist Review
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://tricycle.org/trikedaily/big-gay-history-same-sex-marriage-sangha/
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
An established, subject-specialist Buddhist magazine with a named byline; not an official Soka Gakkai publication, so read as independent reporting rather than the organization's own voice. NotesCited for Soka Gakkai's sexuality-position.
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This source names Soka Gakkai directly: "On Soka Gakkai specifically, it states the organization went from treating homosexuality as a condition to be addressed through Buddhist practice to performing large numbers of same-sex marriage..."
This source names Theravada directly: "shifts among American Tibetan, Theravada and Zen teachers in the same period; the ceremonies took place at a time when the state did not yet legally recognize the unions."
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This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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