I was shocked to read about the opposition to a Hindu marrying a Sikh in a Gurdwara. My brother got married in a Gurdwara in India neither of them were Sikhs. My brother wanted to do that because he liked the Sikh ceremony the best.
It is very hard for me to believe that the Sikhs would object to such a marriage, after all, where did the Sikhs come from? They were the first sons of Hindu families. This is certainly not in the spirit of Guru Nanak Dev. He would never have wanted this kind of separation. His intention was always to bring people of different faiths together even including the Muslims and now a Sikh temple will not allow a marriage between a Hindu and a Sikh in a Gurdwara.
What next, I suppose it will be about which "caste" a Sikh belongs to etc!
Baroness Shreela Flather
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