LGBTQ+

@Bicyclejohn at first my position as a Muslim was that frankly, I don't care. I'm in the west, and even though my religion strongly condemns the act (but having thoughts are not sinful, rather a test as the blind is tested, the poor is tested, etc. and your reward is in the afterlife for abstaining or, if failing to abstain, to repent constantly from sin), I know I can't reasonably expect my country to conform to my own beliefs.

That being said, it did not really end at "oh yeah two men or two women can marry now". It's a cult-like ideology with a month long celebration. The flags are thrown up on the White House in a really strange and eerie way to me. It's very prevalent among children even in elementary school. All this pronoun stuff, while I don't typically care, is being presented to children under the age of 10. This is concerning to me. A lot of the so-called science is clearly funded and published by those with agendas. And even if it isn't, we can't say the long term effects of transitioning are positive because we only have a few years of data anyway, and mostly in adults not minors.

So that's why I have become more hateful. It is not just "I can marry a man/woman now". It is a powerful, cult-like ideology that itself focuses extremely on sex and sexual acts. I just cannot agree with this. There are no parades for heterosexual people. There are no public displays of lewd acts. There are no flags thrown up on the White House. You have the rights you wanted but for some reason the ideology only grows more feverish with time. Why? What is going on?

I see it and to me it is comparable to the description of the people of Lot in the Qur'an. They were also feverish. They were extreme in their actions and in fact forced people into it. The traveler who made the mistake of stopping in their town was not left to his own devices. I'm not saying this is how the LGBT is now, but that's the path I see it taking. And when Lot called them towards better behavior, they called for his "cancellation":

وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوۡمِهِۦۤ إِلَّاۤ أَن قَالُوۤا۟ أَخۡرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرۡیَتِكُمۡۖ إِنَّهُمۡ أُنَاسࣱ یَتَطَهَّرُونَ﴿ ٨٢ ﴾

• Sahih International:
But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."

Al-A'raf, Ayah 82

They wanted him ostracized and removed from society. Why? He was a lone man calling out this action. It wasn't an organized effort to actively hunt down or execute these people. He merely said:

إِنَّكُمۡ لَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهۡوَةࣰ مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَاۤءِۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمࣱ مُّسۡرِفُونَ﴿ ٨١ ﴾

• Sahih International:
Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people."

Al-A'raf, Ayah 81

So yeah. That's why I've become more hateful. It didn't stop at "we just want to get married". I don't care what people do in the privacy of their own home. The problem is it isn't just the home now. It's media, schools, politicians, the White House, and more.