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Mar 2024
1h 33m

Islam and the LGBT Question: Reframing t...

YAQEEN INSTITUTE
About this episode

Within one generation, LGBT ideas and behaviors have gone from being taboo to mainstream. The questions we need to ask are:

  1. How did we get here and why should we care?
  2. How can we build a conceptual framework on gender, sex, and morality based on Islamic sources?

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Note: The audio files are generated using AI technology. As such, the intonations and pronunciation of certain words may not reflect human speech patterns. For the original written research paper check out https://yaqeeninstitute.org

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