When you are a compassionate person, you also fight against injustice.
As a Muslim, I have always been taught to be compassionate.
When I was about 15 years old and lived in upstate New York, I was part of a track club. This club, a group of high school runners, competed during the school year and through the summer. Our coach was a man from the Bronx who brought us to competitions in New York City. My mother lived in NYC at the time (and still does) and once accompanied us to a competition as a chaperone. We drove there, in a van, my mother and coach sitting in the front seats. The drive had us passing the Gay Pride Parade, which none of us were aware was happening that day.
At the time I was a young, naive, somewhat ignorant youth which included being homophobic. These were also the characteristics of a number of the other young athletes in the van. Gawking out the windows, we made jokes, laughed, expressed dismay -- and did so loudly and crudely.
My mother then turned around and snapped at us, "What you're doing is exactly what happened to black people 30 years ago!"
The van was quiet. For the rest of the ride through the Pride parade, we were silent and thinking about what she said. Most of us came from working and middle class black families where the lessons and stories of the civil rights and black liberation movements were fully integrated into our understanding of the world. For me, that same story was intertwined with the freedom of religion that is intrinsic to the American experience. Were it not for that basic principle, then I would not be the man I am -- following a religion of my own choosing.
This brings me to today. This weekend, the New York State legislature approved gay marriage in an eleventh hour push that brought people to the streets of New York City and set up yesterday's Gay Pride Parade as a celebration of years of pushing and overcoming the failed promises of two Governors (Eliot Spitzer and David Patterson).
As someone that is part of two minority groups in the United States (Muslims and African-Americans) I feel that this ruling is a victory for all of us. Majorities in the country have attempted to define the American experience in limited and controlled terms. To be American means you need to be white, Christian, and of course, straight. There is nothing further from the truth. To be American and to enjoy the rights and privileges therein you simply have to live here and pay taxes. This is a diverse nation and to limit the rights of one group opens the potential to limit your rights.
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Islam is what it is, and God doesn't need our help "correcting" his teachings. Peace, assalmo aleikom.
Peace be with you.
Being Gay is not crime and Islam doesn't consider these people as different from normal human being. But it doesnt approve of it and want this dis orientation to be cured. If we can cure several dieseases why not work on this and try to find cure for it? In any case everybody has the rights to live their life they want, but do you want to live a life that is not approved by the creator of heavens and earths?
Peace be unto you.
Gay rights should have been a non-issue in a secular country. Plain and simple. Religious folks should keep their yapper shut about it lest they lose their own rights to practice.
As far as "its not discrimination its just my beliefs", that is a little silly. There are plenty of people who realize there is no rational reason to deny same sex couples the same rights as everyone else.
Gay people are citizens. If some citizens have a right to marry someone they love, all citizens have that right. Somebody else's beliefs about it don't even matter.
What about infection? Most sexual activities carry a risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) from gonorrhoea and herpes to hepatitis B and HIV. There is evidence that anal intercourse carries a higher transmission risk than almost any other sexual activity.
The main health risks, which affect both heterosexual and homosexual couples, are described below.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): there is no doubt that anal intercourse carries a greater risk of transmission of HIV - the virus that can cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -
Hepatitis A (infectious hepatitis): this is a viral infection that can cause jaundice and abdominal pain.
Hepatitis C: is a cause of progressive and sometimes fatal chronic liver disease. Hepatitis C may be transmitted by anal intercourse,
Escherichia coli (E. coli): may sometimes cause mild to severe, or even (rarely) fatal, gastroenteritis. Anal intercourse can facilitate this ‘transfer’ – particularly if it is immediately followed by vaginal intercourse.
Do you call these as illogical and irrational?
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sexandrelationships/analsex.htm