Response To Article Claiming Homosexuality Ok In Islam
The American Psychiatric Association as well as the World Health Organization used to list homosexuality as a mental disorder up until recently. In the past few decades they started considering homosexuality as natural and normal sexual orientation, consequently removing it from the list of mental disorders. In doing so, they only redefined the word normal , despite evidence that it should strictly refer to heterosexuality. In every other instance, a person is considered to be mentally abnormal if he/she does not behave like the majority of other human beings in some crucial way. In their assessment, this rule does not apply to homosexuality. This is just a preference based viewpoint which lacks any intellectual grounding, and that is why we reject it. With that said, Ghamidi sahab is certainly not against medically or psychologically treating homosexuality. If there is any such treatment available, one is free to pursue it in an effort to be able to live a normal life as a heterosexual.