With recent decision by President Barrack Obama on the Gay marriages, our own Muslim community leader and Executive Director of local Mosque, Dr. Aslam Abdullah writes about the controversial issue.

Physical intimacy is not simply a biological action and reaction. It is bigger than that. It is more about the value system that one prefers and adopts because it affects not only the individual, family and the society but human civilizations and cultures as well as the rise and fall of nations.

On the one hand are Freudian followers who argue that civilization is a byproduct of repressed sexuality and on the other hand are those who in the words of J.D. Unwin believe that “in human records there is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a tradition which does not insist on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial continence.”

Click here to read the complete story…the original opinion was written and published in the Las Vegas Sun.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/13/islam-and-muslims-same-sex-marriages/