Bathinda Gurdwara Priests Suspended for Performing Same-Sex Wedding

AMRITSAR : The Akal Takht has disqualified the priests at a Bathinda gurdwara from performing religious services after they performed a same-sex wedding at the shrine last month. The decision was announced by the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of the Sikhs, following a meeting of the ‘Panj Singh Sahibans’ (five Sikh clergymen) in Amritsar on Monday, a day before the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on same-sex marriage.Two women got “married” at Gurdwara Kalgidhar Sahib in Bathinda district on September 18.

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