Priest vows to 'transform' religious teachings by twisitng Scripture on homosexuality at UN meeting
NEW YORK, April 15, 2013 ( C-FAM.org ) - After considering several religions, Sid Thompson changed his name to Daayiee Abdullah and converted to Islam at 30. He adopted the title Imam after developing the group Muslim Gay Men to dispute that the Qur’an rejects homosexuality. Now he performs religious ceremonies including same-sex weddings and wants to start a mosque for homosexuals. When asked how he can be Muslim and homosexual, he says Islamic prohibitions are based on myths. They were teaching tools, created to regulate society, that “supersede for humankind what the actual divine book says.” With this approach, Sodom and Gomorrah became for him a “story about rape, not about homosexual sexual acts.” Abdullah spoke this month on a panel at the United Nations headquarters on “ Being gay , lesbian, bisexual. and transgender in religious communities.” As UN agencies court religious leaders, the speakers presented a way to reinterpret religions to fit their interests