VICE News viss The People's Mosque South Ai, where gay Mlims livg a hostile climate have learned to rencile their sexual inty wh their relig fah.
Contents:
- GAY MLIMS FD SANCTUARY SOUTH AI'S 'PEOPLE'S MOSQUE'
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- MOS GAY
- MOS J. MOSELEY GAY: WAS THE WALKG DEAD ACTOR GAY?
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- INSI CAPE TOWN'S GAY MOSQUE
- A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
- IS CAPE TOWN’S WOMEN AND GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE A SIGN OF NEW MLIM ATTUS?
- WILLIAM HENRY GAY
- GAY DATG MPUMALANGA
GAY MLIMS FD SANCTUARY SOUTH AI'S 'PEOPLE'S MOSQUE'
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South Ai's gay mosque is a small room wh wdows vered wh veian blds, a greenish rpet and a ksch Qibla pass potg to Mec. " On Fridays, more than a dozen gay men and women vis the place of worship n by the untry's only openly gay imam, Muhs Hendricks.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
Hailed by The Stras Tim as an “excellent young nductor”, Mos Gay’s first foray to nductg began at the age of 16, where he earned great praise om renowned Che nductor Ku Lap Man while nductg Phoon Yew Tien’s The Fe Ahead. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
Homosexualy here is not a s. * * *Compared to many untri Ai, where gay sex is a crime and some n be punished by ath, South Ai is a bastn of liberalism.
Gay, lbian and transgenr people face "rrective rape", discrimatn and vlence on a daily basis, say activists. Unlike Hargey's place of worship, The People's Mosque, n by Hendricks, explicly scrib self as a gay place of worship, and has managed to stay out of the Muhs Hendricks ns the gay Mlim support anizatn The Inner Circle alongsi The People's Mosque.
Photo by Salym FayadHendricks has been a pneer for gay rights among South Ain Mlims for the past 18 years.
MOS GAY
Friday prayers at the People's Mosque Cape Town look like any other around the Islamic world, except the imam is openly gay. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
The son of an imam himself, he always wanted to be a cleric, but as a gay young boy, he thought he would go to hell. It should be a place where you uld also qutn Islam; that's what I thk a mosque should be" years, Hendricks has studied the vers of the Quran, particularly those which talk about Sodom and Gomorrah and have been ed as to nmn homosexualy. Before that I was always lookg around, so nobody would go and tell my father that I was openly gay.
MOS J. MOSELEY GAY: WAS THE WALKG DEAD ACTOR GAY?
A Mlim amic recently opened a gay- and women-iendly mosque Cape Town, South Ai, which was largely regard as a rponse to the culture of excln and nservatism the Mlim fah. And spe receivg ath threats and fierce cricism, experts say the hoe of worship's polici reprent an adaptatn of centuri-old tradns. Mart Seemungal reports. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
"I ed to read the vers of the Quran where Allah speaks about Sodom and Gomorrah, those vers that imams e to nmn homosexualy, and I would cry, askg why would a god of love, of mercy, would nmn such a small boy?
I went to a gay support group, but they uldn't help me wh my relign. That's when I met Imam Hendricks, and he told me, Ziyaad is is not haram [forbidn] to be a gay and a Mlim. "For the past year, Ziyaad has been attendg the gay mosque, and helpg other gay men semars where they learn a "queer narrative" which n help them rencile wh their sexualy.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
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Photo by Salym FayadFriday service at the gay mosque tak the same form as that any other mosque the world. It's not a gay thg. The practice of homosexualy has bee much more celebrated wtern society and has ed tremendo nversatn to be kdled around the shiftg moraly of our tim.
INSI CAPE TOWN'S GAY MOSQUE
Genealogy for William Henry Gay (1840 - d.) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
Many Christians today beg to wonr what the Bible really says about homosexualy. Yet, the msage of the Bible is unified s prohibn of homosexual practice.
Let remember that God tends good for our liv and often His prohibns the Bible are to protect om tent here is to prent how the Bible speaks on the very sensive matter of homosexualy, not to be ammunn for divisive cred: ©Getty Imag/pamela_d_mdams.
A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
Genealogy for Mos Gay (1730 - 1800) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
Do the Bible Say Homosexualy a S? Plaly speakg, the Bible tells that the practice of homosexualy is a s. What Do the Old Ttament Say about Homosexualy?
Their society was bched and had gotten the attentn of God (see Genis 18:20-21) bee of their we see the first ias that the prevalence of homosexualy a society is a sign of their overall wickedns and that God will pass judgement on them. Homosexual practice is not the only behavr listed this passage as wicked, but is the one that would shock the ancient rear of this text the cred: ©SparrowStock. Many arguments exist today bee the ancient Hebrew wrers did not e a sgle word for “homosexualy, ” and is claimed that this is a valid reason to qutn the Bible’s thory to rm on this Hebrew wrers ed phras stead.
IS CAPE TOWN’S WOMEN AND GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE A SIGN OF NEW MLIM ATTUS?
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At s root though is an event where a group of men om the tribe of Benjam attempt to homosexually rape a Levil prit. The end state is a rise of homosexual practice that a lolized civil war among the trib of Israel. Aga, we see the ia that homosexualy a society aris when a natn mov away om God and that judgement will cred: Pixabay/jeffjabs1990.
What Do the New Ttament Say about Homosexualy? The language is very specific verse ne that men that practice homosexualy are part of this and they will not her the kgdom of God. People that practice homosexualy are on the list.
Do J Addrs the Issue of Homosexualy? J himself do not e out and directly nmn homosexualy, nor do he support . This affirmatn of tradnal Jewish unrstandg clus homosexualy.
WILLIAM HENRY GAY
Genealogy for Mos Gay (1762 - d.) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ. * moses gay from mpumalanga *
” Its actual meang is an effemate homosexual male (adult, child, or prostute).
GAY DATG MPUMALANGA
J associat this practice wh the ho of kgs and the wealthy who he often intified as opposnal to God’s ntu the ia that a proliferatn of homosexual practice a society has to do wh the directn that a natn is takg regard to followg God. While not g direct language, this is evince that J did not view the practice of homosexualy as God Hate Homosexual People? God do not hate homosexual people.
The practice of homosexualy is not an unfivable s. ” While the Bible do scribe homosexual practice as an abomatn, is well unr the umbrella of fivens if the person repents.