Reverend Nirmala Vasantkumar Responds to the Experts, Bangalore Panchayat, Resising Stigma and Homophobia
Director: Jeevanandhan Rajendran
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Summary: People’s Panchayats on Resisting Stigma and Homophobia; Action Plus - a Coalition for Rights, Education and Care in HIV and AIDS. Reverend Vasantkumar, a member of the Bangalore Panch, discusses her response to the Experts' testimonials. She talks specifically about the Church, and the length of time it took for women to be recognized as pastors. She ends her short response with an assurance of solidarity towards queer people and the queer movement.
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-I just want to say one thing that I go with Arvind to say that it is good to deal with the legal system but out of the experience of the women I would like to tell you, having law is of no use if you don't put it into practice. It is so difficult to bring it into practice but that doesn't mean we should not struggle for it. All the best for you…
And I go with Rex so to say that we need to build up this awareness…there are people who are different and we need to break the mind set of the people to say that this is how it has to be. This is our mind set….anything apart from we look at it as right we say it is wrong. So that kind of mindset has to be broken. So our education, our adequacy, our building up of awareness should be aimed at that.
So I wish you all the best and whatever is possible for us we will do but taking it to our churches I think it will take a long way…as already I was prompting to Father.
To accept women as equals itself, it took more then a century I feel. And still many of the churches have not accepted women as equals, as people who can come for ministry. There are some churches who have accepted. And so it will take a very long time but that doesn't mean we should give up our efforts, our struggle. So I wish you all the best and we will be with you. We understand your feelings….
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People's Panchayats on Resisting Stigma and Homophobia; Action Plus - a Coalition for Rights, Education and Care in HIV and AIDS. Reverend Vasantkumar, a member of the Bangalore Panch, discusses her response to the Experts' testimonials. She talks specifically about the Church, and the length of time it took for women to be recognized as pastors. She ends her short response with an assurance of solidarity towards queer people and the queer movement.
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