Gandhi and Bisexuality: On your mark. Get set. .............

[Smarmie Doofus]

PROJECT!!!

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could bring in legislation to jail anyone who insults Mahatma Gandhi while state governments are moving to ban a biography that reviewers said showed the "Father of the Nation" was bisexual.

Gandhi led the campaign to end British colonial rule but lawmakers say his reputation is being besmirched by a new biography that suggests he had a homosexual affair with a German bodybuilder.

"Mahatma Gandhi is revered by millions, not just in India but across the world. We can't allow anybody to draw adverse inferences about historical figures and denigrate them. Otherwise history will not forgive us," Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily told the Indian Express newspaper.

An amendment to the National Honour Act of 1971 could see Gandhi protected alongside the constitution and national flag, with any insults against him punishable by prison.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld's biography, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India", details correspondence in 1908 between the freedom fighter and Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish bodybuilder.

Reviewers for U.S. and British newspapers cited a letter in which Gandhi writes to Kallenbach about "how completely you have taken possession of my body" as proof of his bisexuality.

The biography showed that Gandhi was "a sexual

....." more at:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/india-furious-over-biography-bisexual-gandhi-20110331-042926-975.html

[Myrina]

1. A German Bodybuilder?

Somehow I can't see someone like Gandhi attracted to The Governator.

:shrug:

[cali]

sexual attraction is a mystery.

in any case, who cares?

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Apparently a lot of people in India. Maybe lots of others. nt

[closeupready]

2. Silliness.

nt

[Rex]

3. Hmmm...sounds like something taken out of context.

[MrScorpio]

4. I heard that Gandhi was actually a tri-sexual...

If it was sexual, he'd try anything.

That makes him a winner in my book.

[FLPanhandle]

5. No one should be "revered"

Their work and accomplishments can be revered, but people are people. Never let a person become some mythical infallible thing.

George Washington, both Roosevelts, JFK, etc all deserve respect for their accomplishments, but as people they weren't perfect or even someone you might like.

[valerief]

6. OMG! Ghandi was a...a...a multisexual!!!!! Forget about the starving people in India. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

7. OMG, we'll have to repeal Indian independence--

It was accomplished by a bisexual. Oh, the shame, the shame!

[AngryAmish]

8. Ghandi was a piss drinker, too

[Smarmie Doofus]

20. Not sure that's an apt comparison, but ok. nt

[ieoeja]

9. Q. for the Law Minister: in what way is this an "adverse inference" and how does it "denigrate" him?

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. +1 nt

[Iggo]

10. So Gandhi shwerved a little different than most.

So what?

[truebrit71]

13. There are more than a few quirks beneath the surface that never seem to get widely discussed..

..sleeping naked with young girls for instance..

[Smarmie Doofus]

21. Evidently that's no insult. But the above is:

>>>>>"The people of Gujarat will never tolerate such insult to Gandhiji," said Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who leads the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat.>>>>>

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. That country's got a billion and one problems and this is what they're working on?

Way to prioritize.

[Lynx]

15. How can this possibly matter?

The Little Kitten was the only real Gandhian pacifist I have ever known. Many times I had to take him to the vet after he'd lost yet another cat fight. I'd tell him, "It's all right to throw tomcats out of your yard and defend your territory." But he insisted, "If I got into a fight with that tom, I'd be going down to his level. If we as cats are a superior species, then we as cats must eschew the use of physical violence to resolve our disputes! No violence!"
The Little Kitten became the change he wished to see in the world.

[Smarmie Doofus]

17. Speaks to the likely condition of GLBTs in that culture. nt

[undeterred]

16. I heard Ghandi was not such a pacifist when it came to his wife.

[Zorra]

18. Adverse inferences? The hyocrisy and ignorance of conservatives knows no bounds.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." John S. Mill

[tabasco]

19. Indians don't seem very fond of free speech

Oh! The outcry over the documentary "Born Into Brothels."