Muslims Think US ‘Has Gone Completely Insane’ Over LGBT Issues, Muslim Leader Says

Peaceful Muslims who live outside the United States think American society “has gone completely insane” over LGBT issues, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf said on a Monday panel hosted by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

After discussing President Barack Obama’s edict directing all public schools to base their bathroom use policies upon gender identity rather than biological sex, the moderator turned to Yusuf to ask how Muslims view the issue.

“Even to think about thinking about it is probably difficult for a lot of Muslims. In the Muslim world … they think we’re a society that’s gone completely insane,” said Yusuf, an American Sunni Muslim scholar.

Besides Yusuf, the panel, “With Liberty and Justice for All: Why We Should Pursue Religious Freedom for Everyone,” also had a Catholic archbishop, William Lori, a Latter-day Saints elder, Dallin Oaks, and an evangelical pastor, Russell Moore, who heads the ERLC.

Yusuf also expressed concerns that younger Muslims are “being inculturated into these lifestyles,” but older immigrant Muslims, particularly black Muslims, “share the evangelical view.”

Archbishop Lori articulated the concerns that Catholic leaders have with Obama’s transgender bathroom directive.

One of the problems, he said, “is the distinction that is being made on sex and gender” because “we are imposing upon our society a confused and confusing anthropology and we muddle what it means to be a human person.

“We are not setting the stage for human flourishing,” he added. “We are contributing to all kinds of long term problems down the road.”

In the meantime, Lori believes, those who don’t make a distinction between sex and gender “will find themselves facing difficulties, penalties.”

Lori also pointed out that Catholic schools got the same letter that was sent to public schools. “So, it’s of great concern to us, what is happening.”

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