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Greetings . . . Wishing safety, security, health, and well-being to all. 

In these challenging times, this wish appears to be more poignant that ever.  The conversations that currently circulate around the US society tend to center on a few common and sustained themes: 

• the resurgence of racism perpetuated by white US citizens 
• the continuing deadly use of force toward non-white citizens by members of various local law enforcement agencies 
• the…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part IV of IV

1. 26:166--"And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!"
2. 26:167-- They said: "If you cease not. O Lout (Lot)! Verily, you will be one of those who are driven out!"
3. 26:168-- He said: "I am, indeed, of those who disapprove with severe anger and fury your (this evil) action (of sodomy).
4. 26:169—"My Lord! Save me and my family from what they…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part III of IV

The Catholic Church

The Church recognizes that homosexuality is an innate condition in most cases, not a choice, and therefore cannot be considered a sin.

Homosexual sexual activity, however, is seen as a "moral disorder" and "homosexual acts" as "contrary to the natural law".

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication,…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part II of IV

Fiqh Positions on Homosexuality

Ahkam al-Qur’an by Muhammad ibn Abdullah aka Ibn al-Arabi

In reference to Q. 7:80, “And (remember) Lot, when he said to his people: "’Do you do the nasty act that no one in the world before you has done,’” Ibn al-Arabi wrote that the nasty act (الفاحشة) is an unlawful sexual act (الزنا). It is an act of disobedience. The verse indicates that the stoning of the people with stones of…

Sodomy and Homosexuality

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part I of IV

What do the sources of Judaism, Christianity and Islam say about sodomy?

The Bible, a source of Judaism and Christianity, calls sodomy a “wicked thing,” an “abomination,” “sexual promiscuity,” and “unnatural vice.” According to the Bible what are the consequences of sodomy? The city of Sodom was “swept away” and Sodomites were to receive “a punishment of eternal fire” and were to be “put to death.” In…