In each of those animal species, five to ten percent of males appear to want to mate only with other males. Biologists were able to detect homosexual behavior in more than 450 different animal species.

Probably gay people have always existed.īesides, humans are not the only living entities with whom homosexual relationships occur. In both ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, clear evidence has been found that homosexuality was certainly known for much longer than 2000 BC. Archaeological finds, however, show that homosexuality has been around much longer than that. It is believed that the story of the prophet Lut takes place between 2000 BC and 1500 BC. What are those crimes then? Could it really be that Lut refers to homosexuality with these atrocities? Is love between people of the same gender really such a unique phenomenon in nature that no one in the world had ever done it before? Is sex between two men or two women really such a terrible crime that God punishes it by destroying an entire people? In the Quran we even read that Lut condemns these crimes as “atrocities that no one in the world has ever committed before”.

They were so bad that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala decided to destroy all the people from his city in a gruesome rain of stones and sulfur. The crimes of the people of Lut were terrible. An atrocity that no one in the world has ever committed before However, in order to understand that message, we need to reconstruct the entire context of those few isolated quotes. It is a story with a clear ethical message, which is even more relevant today. In order to understand the exact meaning of the story of Lut (alaihi salaam), we should not be content with just reading the few quotes that we get thrown at us all the time.

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