Two excellent reasons to OPPOSE gay marriage in the UK

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So you're saying that your reasons for being against homosexuality are religious (as I stated - and thank you for having the honesty to say so) but your reasons for being opposed to gay marriage are...... I'm not sure what your post is saying.

What is your overall position on marriage in the UK? Who should be able to marry who, should the government be involved, should polygamy be allowed etc, etc? This isn't a loaded question. I'm genuinely curious.

Well, the main reason I'm against gay marriage is the potential effect it might have on religious freedom, as I outlined in the first post. It is not acceptable for a gay couple to marry in mosques or to force an Imam or other religious figures to conduct such a ceremony. People can argue all they want how that isn't going to happen, but I see that happening, it's a very real possibility. The government have so far rejected all attempts by Muslim activists to apply the Church of England's exemption laws to Mosques.

There's been increased investigative undercover journalism over the past several of years in mosques where they film Imams giving sermons and lectures about how homosexuality "can lead to the fire of hell" or how it is "an evil sin" and then they show this as proof at how "extremism is creeping into faith schools and places of worship". How in the world is that extremism? To label homosexuality as a sin is as a part and parcel of delivering the correct message of the Qur'an, but the gay lobby won't stop funding govt think-tanks and journalists to look into these cases, they've been trying to fight religion right from the get-go and then they complain that Muslims do not want dialogue with gay activists.

Marriage laws don't really impact upon us Muslims anyway since the vast majority of Muslims do not get legally married under the law (this is a theological issue, the cases of marital laws, divorce laws, inheritance laws etc. we cannot abide by the 'legal' law so we exempt ourselves from it i.e. two muslims marry according to Islamic law and then live together as 'partners').

Polygamy again, is not really an issue for Muslims because we cannot legally marry anyway, the legal rulings of marriage and divorce aren't consistent with Islam, or Judaism for that matter, that's why Jews and Muslims take exemptions. Sorry, I should have phrased it better, Polygamy is illegal under the UK, so Muslims cannot marry multiple wives (which is a shame for some lol), but even if it was legal, Muslims wouldn't be able to marry multiple wives under the conditions set by any such law, since they wouldn't be consistent with Islamic law. Hopefully, that's easier to understand. But it would definitely be a step forward if polygamy was legalised, since then Imams could begin conducting polygamous marriages.