Bathinda Gurdwara Priests Disqualified For Performing Same-Sex Wedding

The priests have been disqualified from performing religious services.

The Akal Takht has disqualified the priests at a Bathinda gurdwara from performing religious services after they performed a same-sex wedding at the shrine last month.

The decision was announced by the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of the Sikhs, following a meeting of the 'Panj Singh Sahibans' (five Sikh clergymen) in Amritsar on Monday, a day before the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on same-sex marriage.

Two women got "married" at Gurdwara Kalgidhar Sahib in Bathinda district on September 18. Following this, the Akal Takht had suspended the 'granthis' (sikh priests), the management and the 'ragis' (gurbani exponents) of the gurdwara.