Banning Ajahn Brahm’s speech on nuns was a spectacular own-goal
All religious
traditions claim to exert moral and spiritual authority. Most of the
great world faiths also like to believe they are aligned with the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations, the third of
which is “to promote gender equality and empower women”. As Buddhists,
it would therefore be a spectacular own-goal to diminish our authority
on gender issues and make a mockery of the third MDG at an event that was supposed to show off our moral stature.
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