Peter Tosh, the Homophobe?

[goldmund]

Greetings all,
A couple of years ago I read an article about Peter Tosh and his relationship with The Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger, etc. who we all know toured w/Tosh in the seventies. The Stones owned some property near a renouned and holy nyabingi community (see Wingless Angles, produced by Keith Richards), which wasn't a problem until Peter Tosh found out that Mick was a bi-sexual. Apparently, Peter Tosh forcibly took the property and held it for 3 months until a settlement was reached between the Stones and Tosh.
Anyone else heard this story? What do you think about it? Certainly conforms to my experience with Rasta, and with recent events here in Europe with Sizzla getting banned from playing in certain venues, etc.
BTW, no disrespect or offence meant by this post or the many others that will come. For over 10 years, Rasta absolutely changed my life. Most of my friends are "rasta" with whatever definition you want to apply to that :).
Blessings

[soulrebel51]

I knew about the Mick-Peter thing but I had no idea that Tosh did that :eek:


Who cares, he still made some great music :sunglasse

[WayfaringStranger]

rastafari is has deep roots in the old testament bible..

[the_dude]

yeah, some rastas are against homos- and bisexuals and can see what they think about but they havent thought through that clearly so they think homos and bis are bad...

but thats like my opinion, man...

[WayfaringStranger]

its not so much thinking that they are bad, or being against, although more ignorant militant people may be like that. but when you are deepley comitted to a certain spirituality, that vision needs to be present in every aspect of life,and to be involved with people or projects that contradict that vision isnt fulfilling for the one with that vision. i highly doubted that tosh feared or hated gay men. if his heart told him it served no purpose to associate with them, then he was mearly being honest to himself, nothing more.

[the_dude]

maybee..

[goldmund]

Seen Wayfarer. There is a certain spiritual militancy about rasta, that doesn't always conform to the ideas of many in this forum, for example. In a certain sense, rasta is a paradox within "hippy" circles, providing free spirits with mysticism, discipline, and grounding, while contradicting some of our more secular and tolerant values.

[aoacoder]

and thus the problem with organized religion, it takes only one closed minded indivual to make the whole group look bad.