Religion is only what people practice. When I say Islam needs to be reformed, I'm not saying that whatever notion of TRUE ISLAM is out there, that we need to change it. What I'm saying is that the current nature of Islam practiced by most muslims is not in line with the true islam that God wanted. For example, if many modern Muslims believe terrorism is justified in Islam, then that would be form of Islam that needs to be reformed. Why should it be reformed? Because that is not the version of Islam I believe God wanted. PERIOD.Methylamine wrote:People need to be careful on what they say. Technically the act of homosexuality does not take you out of the fold of Islam, as the only thing that does is shirk. But saying things such as, "it's okay to gay in Islam" or giving one's self a title like an "openly-gay Muslim" implies that you are glorifying and legitimizing the act of homosexuality in Islam, wrongfully giving the sin a place in the religion. That in it self can potentially be considered an act of shirk. Be mindful in the language that you use when dealing with this topic
People who claim to be Muslim and say that the religion needs reformation need to re-evaluate their lives
Reforming Islam does not mean creating a new religion or editing the religion. Its about INTERPRETING the faith in a manner consistent with our evolving morals and notions of justice. The fact we are now learning homosexuality is natural. That it is found all over the animal kindom. That people are born with it. That they don't have a choice many times in who they love. These are all factors that should help us understand that homosexuality CANNOT be immoral since its natural. Thus, it makes sense to INTERPRET the faith as being consistent and able to co-exist with homosexuality rather than acting like its anti-thetical to being muslim.
All religion is human practice. And human practice is forever changing. The idea we can know everything about Islam now is foolish. Just like its foolish to think people a thousand years ago knew about homosexuality and how it arose.
Yes people of Lut used to commit other sins too but homosexuality was the worst one. Allah punished them as opposed to other homosexual practisers because they practised it as a community/nation. Nearly everyone if not all in Luts town practised it. I don't know if they did it out of worship or just for the sake of doing it. When Lut told them to stop this practise they told him to leave them otherwise they will kill him. Allah mentions in the Qur'an he destroyed the people of Lut including his wife except for Lut and his son (or sons don't remember if he had one or more). 
