What is sexuality and how can it be defined within religion and social environments? How much authority should religion have in the lives of everyday Americans? These are the questions this class has been trying to uncover, and this was also the question surrounding each conversation and article Julia and I discussed this semester. We traveled through the topics of gender, virginity, and same-sex marriage all in the confines of religion. Our discussions never lead to a definitive answer, but they did uncover the beginning steps towards the solution, equality. The first article that Julia and I read discussed the controversial bathroom law in North Carolina. This law stated that a person must use the bathroom that coincides with the gender
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This is my home. I will fight to protect it (Brubaker).’” Brubaker frames this argument as a civil rights violation by the states that have passed this discriminatory bathroom law. She argues that the transgender community does not have the intention of creeping on little girls in the bathroom, but instead want to be accepted and not forced to do something they are uncomfortable with, especially when it comes to using the bathroom. The Christian groups that are using the threat of a bathroom creeper as their counterargument to human rights is using that argument solely for the purpose of their hidden agenda, implementing themselves into city politics. These groups are using the social concept of gender to deny rights to a group of people. In Just Love by Margaret Farley, she says “Gender is influenced by cultural and social factors, but is nonetheless recognizable across cultures… Societies are universally ordered along gender lines; particularly roles and tasks are assigned either to women or men but not to both (Farley 133).” Therefore, the concept of gender has been socially construct, so why …show more content…
Hendricks works in Cape Town, South Africa, as an Imam. There he works with the Muslim homosexual community, that feels they have been ostracized from mainstream Muslims for several reasons. Hendricks finds the Qur’an to be in support of human rights and evidence that homosexual relationships were created by God. Hendricks believes that some Hadiths contradict what the Qur’an states; therefore, he only pays attention to the ones he finds in accordance with the text. He is also a proponent for individual thinking, ijtihad. Hendricks hopes that The Inner Circle, the organization supporting the group of Muslims Hendricks works with, can raise Muslims to a point where love and compassion supersedes hate in their communities with the homosexual, transgender, and others that are not considered traditional Muslim communities. This article is a break through between the idea that you must choose between being Muslim and being gay. Hendricks describes his community in South Africa as a group of Muslim men, who have been rejected by the church because of their sexual orientation, that worship just the same as their heterosexual counterparts. However, these men must worship at an entirely separate mosque than the heterosexual Muslims. Hendricks believes that it does not have to be this way. He believes that the Qur’an does not
This is my home. I will fight to protect it (Brubaker).’” Brubaker frames this argument as a civil rights violation by the states that have passed this discriminatory bathroom law. She argues that the transgender community does not have the intention of creeping on little girls in the bathroom, but instead want to be accepted and not forced to do something they are uncomfortable with, especially when it comes to using the bathroom. The Christian groups that are using the threat of a bathroom creeper as their counterargument to human rights is using that argument solely for the purpose of their hidden agenda, implementing themselves into city politics. These groups are using the social concept of gender to deny rights to a group of people. In Just Love by Margaret Farley, she says “Gender is influenced by cultural and social factors, but is nonetheless recognizable across cultures… Societies are universally ordered along gender lines; particularly roles and tasks are assigned either to women or men but not to both (Farley 133).” Therefore, the concept of gender has been socially construct, so why …show more content…
Hendricks works in Cape Town, South Africa, as an Imam. There he works with the Muslim homosexual community, that feels they have been ostracized from mainstream Muslims for several reasons. Hendricks finds the Qur’an to be in support of human rights and evidence that homosexual relationships were created by God. Hendricks believes that some Hadiths contradict what the Qur’an states; therefore, he only pays attention to the ones he finds in accordance with the text. He is also a proponent for individual thinking, ijtihad. Hendricks hopes that The Inner Circle, the organization supporting the group of Muslims Hendricks works with, can raise Muslims to a point where love and compassion supersedes hate in their communities with the homosexual, transgender, and others that are not considered traditional Muslim communities. This article is a break through between the idea that you must choose between being Muslim and being gay. Hendricks describes his community in South Africa as a group of Muslim men, who have been rejected by the church because of their sexual orientation, that worship just the same as their heterosexual counterparts. However, these men must worship at an entirely separate mosque than the heterosexual Muslims. Hendricks believes that it does not have to be this way. He believes that the Qur’an does not