Unlike Judaism, Christianity, and even Islam, none of the Indian based religions are against homosexuality. In fact they don’t mention or condemn at all. Their mild resistance to homosexuality in practice is due to British cultural influence.
Comment, LJ?
However, a second look into the issue shows that this is not necessarily the case.
Quote from above link:
"The Manu Samhita, upon which Hindu law used to be based upon and to some extent in rural areas is still given the nod, condmens homoexual acts very strongly. The entire text is available on “Sacred Texts”, a website that has everything on it..... The [Muslim] practice of molesting young Hindu male adolescents and boys was one of the many reasons Hindus loathed the moslem conquerors. .... The idea that Hinduism was tolerant of homosexual behavior is sheer ignorance."
It is interesting to me that Mohandas Gandhi, who revered sexual continence as a high spiritual ideal within Hinduism, opposed contraception because he saw that the splitting of sex away from its procreative design, would pave the way for perversions like homosexuality:
"If mutual consent makes a sexual act moral, whether within marriage or without, and, by parity of reasoning, even between members of the same sex, the whole basis of sexual morality is gone and nothing but misery and defect awaits the youth of the country… It is futile to hope that the use of contraceptives will be restricted to the mere regulation of progeny. There is hope for a decent life only so long as the sexual act is definitely related to the conception of precious life. This rules out of court perverted sexuality and, to a lesser degree, promiscuity. Divorce of the sexual act from its natural consequence must lead to hideous promiscuity and condonation, if not endorsement, of unnatural vice."
The original source of the Gandhi quote online link
Gandhi repeatedly made the connection between the spread of artificial birth control and an increase in homosexual behavior, arguing that a sexual ethic based simply on the gratification of passions would make it "the rage among boys and girls to satisfy their urge among members of their own sex."
This was a radical prediction to make at the time (the 1920's) , but Gandhi insisted that his position was fundamentally aligned with traditional Indian/Hindu cultural and spiritual values, equating sexual gratification, whether hetero- or homosexual, divorced from its procreative aspect, as barbarism. This was not a notion he got from the British, whose leading social elites were admirers of Marie Stopes, early Sexual Revolution enthusiasts, like the Sangerites in the USA.