12.1 Kesamaan Gay
12.1 Gay Equality
Adakah Islam menafikan kesaksamaan dengan melarang tingkah laku seksual sejenis sambil membenarkan tingkah laku seksual antara lelaki dan perempuan? Ramai Muslim di Barat, muda dan tua, nampaknya percaya begitu. Mereka berhujah bahawa inilah sebabnya undang-undang Islam perlu dipinda, supaya diskriminasi yang jelas ini dapat dihapuskan. Tetapi adakah benar-benar wujud diskriminasi? Adakah Islam menindas manusia? Jawapan ringkasnya ialah tidak. Islam tidak menindas manusia secara sistematik dengan melarang tingkah laku seksual tertentu. Sebenarnya, normalisasi LGBT yang menindas manusia, kerana ia membuatkan mereka percaya dan merasa bahawa mereka perlu terlibat dalam tingkah laku sejenis yang merosakkan diri demi mencapai kepuasan seksual.
Does Islam deny equality by prohibiting same-sex sexual behavior but allowing opposite-sex sexual behavior? Many Western Muslims, young and old, seem to believe this. And they argue that this is why Islamic law needs to be reformed —so that this clear discrimination can be eliminated. But is there really any discrimination going on? Is Islam oppressing people? The short answer is no: Islam is not systematically oppressing people by prohibiting certain sexual behaviors. In actuality, LGBT normalization is oppressing people by making them believe and feel that they need to engage in self-destructive same-sex behaviors in order to be sexually fulfilled.