Do gays deserve the same rights and access to benefits as the straights?

[mahool]

Re: Do gays deserve the same rights and access to benefits as the straights?

@Reha

I think the difference of opinion is basically right here:

My stance is…I don’t believe in stopping people with my words or verbally discouraging anyone. I believe in actions - positive actions influence the worst of the worst to change their ways and accept what is right.

People may consider this apologetic but in that case…they’d also be calling our own Prophet (saw) apologetic - and He wasn’t. I am not sure when the meaning of the word Islam had changed to something other than peace. When it became okay to be anything but loving human beings. But that’s not the issue we’re discussing here.

Condemning is fine but I don’t know of any ahadith in which the Prophet openly condemned anyone. Does anyone here? We know homosexuality is wrong…but we also know that freedom is right. People have been able to renounce Islam in His lifetime and were not to be terrorized nor denied any basic human rights.

The basic difference here is that I don’t believe in just saying “homo’s are wrong”. If Islam is a way of life…then where is the spirit of Islam? Where is the acceptance we are taught? Nowhere anymore.

On the authority of Abu Sa’eed al-Khudree (ra) who said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say, “Whoso- ever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.”
[Muslim]