“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
On gay marriage he said, ‘Marriage between a man and woman was instituted by God at the origin of humanity in the Garden of Eden, as the book of Genesis in the Bible tells us ... a joint statement ...