The Dalai Lama is in Washington this week trying to arrange a meeting with President Obama. It's Obama, however, who is acting like the Buddhist master, i.e. he’s doing nothing. The Wall Street Journal, has been quick to decry Obama’s Zen like response to the Lama. Saying that meetings with the Dali Lama are important because they “affirm the religious and democratic freedoms America stands for while setting a precedent for the rest of the world.”

An interesting sentiment supposing that a “free” Tibet would mean Tibet under the religious aristocratic rule of the Dali Lama and his army monk-ninjas. A theocracy is the conceptual opposite to the religious and democratic freedoms America stands for. Obama not meeting with him sets the precedent that the President has better stuff to do than meet with hyper-religious weirdoes who want our help to become dictatorial rulers of their twisted version of utopia. The Lama is barking up the wrong dharma tree as far as I'm concerned.

Granted, I’m biased because I think the Dalai Lama is a bit of an arse. He pretends that he is this easy going guy who just wants to be compassionate to others but he acts like the Pope’s Asian cousin. His popular image may be new age, but he’s stuck in the medieval times.

1) At a 1997 press conference the Dalai Lama said: “Men to men sex and women to women sex is sexual misconduct.”

Jerry Falwell and the Lama agree: being a homo is a no-no.

2) An interview with 2001 Swiss magazine he said, “Sexual organs were created for sexual reproduction between the male the element and the female element and anything that deviates from this is not acceptable.”

By this definition you shouldn’t even take a piss!

3) In 1999 he endorsed Consistent Life, an anti-abortion lobby group.

Killing is wrong, unless it’s an abortion doctor.

4) In a series of religious writings published in 1998 he said, “Masturbation is forbidden.”

And by association, so is the internet.

5) In the same religious writings he deemed, “Oral sex and anal sex are not acceptable even between a husband and wife.”

Anyone who likes sodomy and/or bj's and is traveling to Tibet, might wanna rethink their plans.

6) Perhaps most disturbingly, he went on to say that “Having sex during the day is sexual misconduct.

Oh, Lama, doesn’t Buddhism let you have any fun with your fun parts?

So let’s recap: the Dalai Lama says gay sex, oral sex, anal sex, day sex and abortion are all wrong – is that who you want running a free Tibet? Is this guy we want to pick a fight with China over? He’s a sexaphobe and that's undemocratic and anticapitalist.  I can't say I'm surprised that the rightwing establishment likes him so much, after all they share some of the Lama's ideas of intolerance and small-mindedness.