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The few women that did come around were "tolerated".
So I have no clue what the male Chris gang talked about privately...
they were like an exclusive all boys club!
I didn't know that. Was even Katyani not allowed in the boys club?
The boys club on this forum said that homosexuality was taught amongst the group to be religiously wrong in the early days but was not labored. They also attempted to convince us that NONE of the 'boys club' exhibited 'homosexual' tendencies. Not that anyone was asking but the denial was noted. Tusta's love and devotion to Butler, the shot of Sai in borderline drag, to hating all the tillies in ISKCON in the mid-70s. The true meaning of homophobe.
If he was openly stating this to his guru you can be sure his closer male followers knew the attitudes he held.
There were known lesbian disciples in the 90s also. The attitude towards the girl you were talking about was already laid out in Homosexuality: An Identity Crisis.
Butler cleverly claimed that homosexuality and heterosexuality were equally wrong (so the reader didn't perceive him as a bigoted hateful homophobe). Then he says sex in marriage with the goal of having children is pleasing to God and therefore since gay men can't have children they can never be pleasing (Religious sex). He then goes on to state that heterosexual illicit sex is less sinful in marriage (Approval of hetero over homo sex)
So when in the mid-80s he said to this girl that she had to give up being a lesbian or leave and this rule did not apply to the heteros sleeping around she mustn't have realised that this attitude was already laid out earlier in the late 70s or early 80s (whenever the book was published).
It seems understandable that there would be a progression of homophobia but it made no sense to me that he went from SIF holding no homophobic values whatsoever for 20 years and then suddenly wanting to see them hung from trees just to get a politician into office.