Inter-Religious Marriages in Gurdwaras

kds1980 · #19 (**permalink**) 29-Oct-2010, 13:10 PM

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Kanwardeep Ji, you say that 99.99% time the woman converts to the man's religion. I would say that only holds true for muslims. In other faiths, my observation has shown the woman is often the one who decides the dominant faith in the household as she is the one instilling those values in the kids. It can go either way depending on which partner has stronger views about their faith.

Jasleen

Your observation is for true for western society and not for Patriarchal Indian society.
In Indian society you can easily see sikh women married to Hindu men and you can see whether they are raising their children as sikhs or Hindu.Most of women here adopt husband's faith.Jagdish tytler,Amitabh Bachan ,Varun Gandhi all had/have sikh mothers
and How much sikhs they are we all know.Similarly all the daughters of PM manmohan singh are married to non sikhs.Not even a single grand child of Manmohan Singh is a sikh.My own
cousin sister wha was very much practicing sikh married Hindu and went to USA ,after that
she cut her hair and her both children are non sikhs.

LostBoat · #20 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2010, 02:20 AM

In my opinion I do not think that Guru ji would discriminate between people on the basis of religion. I also do not agree with the setting of statutes and rules by the SPGC or any other organisations I believe our sole guide is the guru and if the guru does not have the right or desire to discriminate between people of different faiths then we should not. Therefore I propose the motion that Inter-religious marriage should be allowed between a sikh and those of any faith be they a polytheist, atheist or a theist.

pamma · #21 (**permalink**) 23-May-2011, 14:29 PM

I feel with these narrow views we are becoming like fanatics. What is real Sikhism? Are we allowed to have alcohol? Aren't we supposed to give a 10th of are earnings in charity? Aren't we supposed to respect women? Where does all the Sikhi go to when we see people rolling drunk at parties in hotels after the Anand Karaj ceremony at a Gurdwara, the sevadars and Gurdwara workers dying of illness coz they don't have funds for medicines, female infanticide being the highest in Punjab?
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/controversies/32848-inter-religious-marriages-in-gurdwaras.html
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=32848

It's high time we get over issues like inter marriages. I know of people who have had such marriages and they have respect for each other's religious beliefs. they observe both ways of prayers.

We must keep in mind that the Guru Granth Sahib teaches us to aim at spirituality which comes through naam. We have to teach that to our coming generations.

If we don't become broadminded with the present generation we cannot spread the wonderful message of our Gurus.

Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh!