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Contents:

• MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE WARNGS
• CAN A MLIM ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
• GAY MARRIAGE: ISLAMIC VIEW
• IS GAY MARRIAGE PROHIBED? [DUPLITE]
• MAJORY OF U.S. MLIMS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, WHILE WHE EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS REMA OPPOSED
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE

However, acrdg to a recent survey by Public Relign Rearch Center, more than half (52%) of Amerin Mlims ageed that "society should approve of homosexualy. Racial and ethnic posn among Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage% of Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage who intify as…. Edutnal distributn among Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage% of Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage who have pleted….

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GAY MARRIAGE WARNGS

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CAN A MLIM ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?

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GAY MARRIAGE: ISLAMIC VIEW

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IS GAY MARRIAGE PROHIBED? [DUPLITE]

How Amerin Mlims Mt Rpond to Orlando Israel's First Gay Major General Is No Cse for Pri The Real Opprsors of Gaza's Gay Communy Beit Pri Canceled After Organizer Detaed by Authori Lebanon last year beme the first Arab untry to hold a gay pri week, though the openg event was nceled bee of safety ncerns after threats of vlence.

>> After Orlando: Amerin Mlims mt challenge our muny's homophobia || Opn >> The ath penalty stead om the Hadh, or acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. The group bas this gome punishment on one acunt which the Prophet Muhammad reportedly said gays "should be thrown om tremendo height then stoned.

Across the Arab world, gays have been arrted and sentenced to prison on charg lked to "bchery" - and faced floggg or even the ath penalty Iran and Sdi Arabia. In Egypt, there have been police raids of spected gay gathergs and people have been put on trial g a vague legal text that equat homosexualy wh prostut and tri gays for "vlatg public moraly. " "Middle Eastern and North Ain untri have nounced the Orlando shootg when at the same time they crimalize homosexualy wh sentenc rangg om years prison to the ath penalty, " said Ahmed Benchemsi, munitns and advocy director for the Middle East and North Ai at Human Rights Watch.

MAJORY OF U.S. MLIMS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, WHILE WHE EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS REMA OPPOSED

In Syria, al-Qaida's lol branch as well as other Islamic surgent groups battlg ISIS, have also killed gays and some homosexuals have had to flee the untry for their own safety. Recently Council of Imams Queensland print Yuf Peer said gay marriage was unacceptable to Islam, and that Mlims should rpect LGBTQI people but "nmn only their actns" the statement om the Natnal Imams Council was unambiguo: "Islam plac the fay un at the heart of a healthy society, and this ntext, the right of children to be red for and raised by both a mother and father is one that mt be protected.

Consens 'difficult' to achieveAs Ri Jaspal, Profsor of Psychology & Sexual Health om De Montfort Universy poted out, is difficult to fe a sgle Islamic posn on homosexualy, bee Islam is diverse, wh about 1. 6 billn followers across six all, while homosexualy is illegal most Islamic untri cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is not others such as Jordan and Mr Jaspal wrote for The Conversatn: "Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.

"They tend to draw on the story of Lot the Koran [also the Old Ttament] which reunts the stctn of the tribe of Lot allegedly due to their engagement homosexual acts as 'evince' for God's nmnatn of homosexualy. "There are many of who, whilst believg that the act of homosexualy is forbidn, unrstand that we nnot judge someone and that the issue of relign is separate om the civil laws that should be passed to ensure equaly before the law, " she said.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

"'Many gay Mlims live fear'Mr Ali said he is aware that his views are the mory the Mlim muny, and that a lot of LGBTI Mlims stggle to fd a place their muny of live fear, he said, and have to "endure vlence om their fai". Atralia's first — and only — openly gay imam, Melbourne's Nur Warsame, received ath threats after g out and tablishg an LGBT iendly recently told the ABC: "I want to be known as an pennt Imam who is sympathetic.

Attendg a gay marriage is punishable acrdg to Sharia law and Mlims mt therefore rea om attendg same-sex culture believ that all ccial elements of pannship and love, marriage is nothg more than lerally a ntract between a man and a woman which the groom provis mahr to the bri return for exclive sexual accs. It is a ntract that mak reproductn and sex legal the ey of God and legimate the ey of the marriage is based on a ntract premised vagal terurse as well as fancial obligatn between a man and a woman, gay upl nnot engage any marriage. It is also forbidn for any Mlim believer to be volve by attendg or takg part such a marriage foc on the actns of the Sharia meang that the clatns or the sir of havg or attendg a gay weddg have no legal substance and is nsired haram.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

Mlim scholars set the punishment for anal sex between men as anywhere om relatively light one at the judge’s discretn bee sodomy do not lead to illegimate on the fact that marriage is viewed as a legal ntract for sexual terurse, where procreatn is not necsarily sential, would seem that Islam uld allow for gay marriage. However, bee same sex sexual acts has been addrsed by the past jurists the ntext of ubnah as well as perasty, wnsg or havg a legal ntract for gay upl have never been vtigated Islamic today’s work, neo-tradnalist Mlims believers, who wish to superimpose classil jurist opns, are takg a nmnatory posn om classil juristic manuals and are utilizg them to reject gay uple weddgs and no Mlim should take part such celebratns.

Such classil opns have been ocsnally been prented the form of juristic l and legal maxims, one of which is applied to wnsg marriage and by extensn or analogy to gay uple tradnalists refer to verse 23:5-7 as well as the juristic le, al-aṣl fī al-ʾabḍāʿ al-taḥrīm referrg to the flt stat of accsg female punda is prohibn, is seemgly rived om this verse, to prohib gay marriage. Moreover, the le, which was unrstood the past as the prohibn of accsg of a woman’s private part unls through permted path of ncubage or marriage nnot be applied to takg part a marriage that will allow sexual activy between the nf of legal ntract which will clu gay ’s juristic pns that prohib gay sex and wnsg of a gay marriage are based on ijtihād, or a rived posn, and the le on which this prohibn li n be ntted on the basis of at least five reasons as attemptg to attend such a unn, any Mlim believer always nsir his or her fay beliefs.