Should Muslims Support The Right To Gay Marriage In A Country Like USA?
Addendum: Isn’t this similar to how Ghamidi Sb. believes that the government should not discriminate in its support for building places of worship for different communities since it has an equal duty to all its citizens, even if it might be used to facilitate Shirk, the gravest sin.
We Muslims support right to freedom of religion for everyone, and state being a nation state provides equal opportunity for its citizens to express this right. The right to freedom of religion comes first here which is in line with Quran, but how one exercises that right ( whether through Polytheism or other means ) is secondary to that. However, this doesn’t mean that we Muslims support Polytheism in this case. Supporting gay marriage falls in a different domain, because here the right itself is something which goes against directives of religion and falls in Fawahish and is antithesis to the institution of marriage created by God, therefore, supporting gay marriage would explicitly tantamount to supporting Fawahish prohibited in Quran. Just the way we Muslims cannot support heterosexual live-in relationships, similarly we as Muslims cannot support gay marriage. Please also refer to the following response by Ghamidi Sahab : Discussion 56244 • Reply 57760 __ I think following video would be relevant in this context: https://youtu.be/dsYW8rdaO1E
A Muslim state will not allow Muslims to have gay marriages. It will make it illegal. However, with respect to the Non Muslims, the Muslims have to establish first, that it is Fuhash, until then, the state has to tolerate such anomalies.
In our discourse, Ahadith are not taken on their face value, rather they are to be understood within the framework provided by Quran and Sunnah. Infact, as a matter of Principle, the same has been the principle of scholars of Hadith for the past many centuries with a few exceptions. Since it is a different topic, please see for details: Discussion 66290