TV Host Claims His Island Will “Cure” Gays
Via Examiner.com…
A TV show host in India who claims homosexuality can be cured through yoga is opening up a camp on a remote island, with a little help from his multi-millionare friends.
Swami Baba Ramdev of India recently challenged the Dehli high court when it decriminalized homosexuality, claiming homosexuality is a "congenital defect" that can be cured with yoga.
Ramdev also claims yoga can cure HIV/AIDS and cancer.
According to Pink News, Sam and Sunita Poddar purchased a small Scottish island called Little Cumbrae, and they are renaming it Peace Island.
Ramdev is extremely popular in India. His television shows are watched by 20 million people every day. The couple are devotees of Ramdev, and have built a yoga center on the island just for him.
Apparently he can do no wrong in the minds of India's people. In 2006, when lab tests discovered human bones and powder from human skulls in Ramdev's herbal remedies, only four percent of Indians believed it was true.
Mohammed Abbas of the Indian Medical Associaion told the Daily Record that Ramdev's claims are "false hope for ill people." Sanal Edamaruki of the Indian Rationalist Association calls Ramdev's practices "illegal" and "peddling quackery of the highest order."
Notice how the spokesman from the Indian Medical Association says gays are ill. I just have to remind myself, progress is slow.
Extremely Ill Informed.!!
The Island is less than 2 miles from the Scottish Mainland, hardly remote.
It is not being renamed anything.
Ramdev is merely visiting the island at its opening celebration, and has at no point made any claims as to the islands effectiveness in the cure for anything..its an open, non-religous yoga and healthy living centre in Scotland that hopes to bring much needed employment and tourism to the area. I have read the new owners long term plans to regenerate the heritage and nature of the island and, as a local, support their admirable project fully...
Take it up with Examiner.com. They were the ones who posted it. I do know the guy said being gay can be cured with Yoga. The point being is, being gay cannot be cured because their is nothing wrong with it.