Is Gay Marriage Allowed In Islam ?

Contents:

• GAYNS AND HOMOSEXUALY
• WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• BAN GAY MARRIAGE, DEPORT DREAMERS: DOUG MASTRIANO’S EXTREME VIEWS CGHT ON TAPE
• WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• IS GAY MARRIAGE ALLOWED IN ISLAM
• CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

GAYNS AND HOMOSEXUALY

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“Gay advocy” the Wt is an attempt to equalize between all stat as morally different, equally valid unr the law, equally worthy of rpect, and equally servg of benef and entled to a place the sun whether subtle ways or as exhibnistic and aggrsive proselytism the public space cludg schools. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, Turkey sr slightly better on measur of gay rights when pared wh some nearby Christian-majory natns such as Rsia, Armenia and Ukrae. Their eccentricy has apparently add to their beyond the entertament dtry, the tradnal mastream Islamic view on homosexualy produc tolerance Turkey toward gays and creat starker problems Mlim natns that apply Shariah.

The average nservative Mlim tak this story as a jtifitn to stigmatize gays, but there is an important qutn that serv nsiratn: Did the people of Lot receive dive punishment for beg homosexual, or for attackg Lot and his heavenly guts? The even more signifint nuance is that while the Quran narrat this dive punishment for Sodom and Gomorrah, cre no earthly punishment for homosexualy — unlike the Old Ttament, which clearly cre that homosexuals “are to be put to ath.

WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

But signifint nam among them, such as the eighth-century scholar Abu Hanifa, the founr of the popular Hanafi school of jurispnce, argued that sce a homosexual relatnship did not produce offsprg wh an unknown father, uldn’t be nsired real Islamic basis for punishg homosexualy is the hadhs, or saygs, attributed to the Prophet Muhammad.

People’s private liv are their own bs, he argu, whereas the public Mlim stance should be to fend gays when they are persecuted or discrimated agast — bee Islam stands wh the downtrodn. In the Wt today, where homosexualy was once nsired an illns by the Associatn of Psychiatrists, has now been removed om the list and replaced by homophobia (the dislike of homosexuals and homosexualy). Furthermore, June 1994, the Chigo Tribune reported that a junr rearcher Hamer’s laboratory who assisted the gene mappg the homosexualy study, alleged that he selectively reported his data.

BAN GAY MARRIAGE, DEPORT DREAMERS: DOUG MASTRIANO’S EXTREME VIEWS CGHT ON TAPE

A siar msage was offered by Tariq Ramadan, Profsor of Contemporary Islamic Studi at Oxford, when he vised New Zealand: Mlims and others have to rpect each other, which clus acceptg that the law perms gay marriage. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.

IS GAY MARRIAGE ALLOWED IN ISLAM

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). Relign, both as relat to relative importance people’s liv and actual relig affiliatn, also plays a large role perceptns of the acceptabily of homosexualy many societi across the globe. In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy.

For example, those who are religly unaffiliated, sometim lled relig “non, ” (that is, those who intify as atheist, agnostic or “nothg particular”) tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy. Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. In the wake of the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that took the liv of 49 people, there has been much speculatn around gunman Omar Mateen's motiv for the ratnale for the crime, first nsired to be a straight man's act of homophobic vlence, beme self-loathg when me to light that for years Mateen had rrpond on gay datg apps and was a regular patron of the very club on which he mounted his murro each se, Mateen's relign of Islam was isolated as the unrlyg e of vlence.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

I have been soliced untls tim to "expla" Mlims' alleged homophobia, before but pecially after the Orlando tragedy, and each time I have wonred why this homophobia is taken as a is Islam's stance on homosexualy? This qutn is highly vexed and impossible to answer, as there are not one but many stanc, not one but many Islamic schools of thought, and scholars have rightly offered much-need cricism of the ia that there is one monolhic body lled Islam that n be nsistent over time and space, let alone have equally thorny and tertg qutn regards what we mean by "homosexualy.

The word homosexual do not appear anywhere the Koran, and ed uldn't, bee the word is an ventn of the late 19th century, when medil societi Europe tried to place groups of people who took part siar sex acts unr a mon tegory, which they then labeled "homosexualy. As scholar Khaled el-Rouayheb explas his historil survey of same-sex sire the Islamic world om 1500 to 1800, sexual inty tegori we e today have not been relevant Islamic human subjects he studi may have engaged (p amounts) of same-sex acts whout ever speakg of what they were dog terms of inty, or velopg muni of like-md dividuals around the this unrstandg, el-Rouayheb tled his study "Before Homosexualy the Arab-Mlim World" (emphasis me) a move that may have seemed to be erasg homosexualy om the historil rerd but was really jt affirmg that this morn term uld not scribe the same-sex eroticism of this Islamic recently as last year, durg a Brish televised bate on the subject of whether one uld be both Mlim and gay, some Mlim guts claimed that this was a moot qutn bee "Islam" do not ask Mlims to nform to a particular sexual orientatn (another morn ncept). Intertgly for this topic, the cleart and most explic nmnatns and punishments of homosexualy exist the ahadh, and is th no wonr that many Mlims who intify as LGBT take the Quranist posn and reject Mlims reject the rejectn of ahadh and acce LGBT Mlims of pickg and choosg what they want to follow.

But the realy is that many LGBT imams have strong semantic and textual arguments that provi at the very least grounds for imams unrle the importance of another Islamic rnerstone—terpretatn (ijtihad)—potg to the fact that Mlims, throughout their history, have lived or at the tersectn wh non-Mlim societi, and have had to adapt their beliefs and practic to foreign rtrictns, novel circumstanc and sist that one has to view homosexual inty (which is not the same thg as homosexual activy) as one such novel circumstance not erned by the Koran.