Please read! This is to my brethren here!

Salman, until or unless you have a child whom you love with all your heart come to you one day and tell you he/she is gay, you cannot possibly understand how much pain you feel.  How much sadness.  Do you think for a second I would just stop loving my daughter?  I don't see my daughter as immoral.  I KNOW the homosexual act is immoral, as I also believe the scriptures and what has been said about these ACTS being an abomination before God.  I also know my daughter did not one day just think, "hmmmm, I think I'll be a lesbian".  She fought these feelings very, very hard.  She dated guys a lot!  But she finally had to admit what she really felt in her heart. 

My daughter is college educated.  She graduated cum laude and was on the Dean's List.  Now she has worked for years as a social worker helping elderly and mentally ill clients find suitable housing, medical care, ensuring they have food to eat, etc.  She has spent her life so far caring for others.  She bought a very nice older home and fixed it up herself so that it is a beautiful Victorian style house.  She works in her yard all the time planting flowers and making gardens.  She reads volumes of books.....she has wonderful books everywhere.  She is anti-war, reads books on ALL religions, Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, etc.  She is a gourmet cook....even makes her own curry. My daughter is extremely intelligent...but she does not judge anyone. She absolutely refuses to talk against another person.  She feels we all have the right to our own beliefs.  She is rabidly fighting against discrimination for women from all countries.  She has travelled to many countries.

I only wish I could be half the tolerant, understanding person my beautiful daughter is.  If we were all like her, with her love for ALL MANKIND, there would be no war.  So, we have miles to go before we fully understand what causes a person to become homosexual.  One thing I DO know, it is not a simple matter of choice.

Yes, my daughter has to "fight it", Muslima.  Strange as it may sound, you would like my daughter if you knew her, and I'm sure she would like you (as a person) too.  She fights her demons everyday!!  What demons do we have that we must also fight???  The demons of intolerance and bigotry perhaps?  The demons of drugs or alcohol or premarital sex???  The BIG DEMON of lust??? We ALL have our own demons, don't we?

God's Peace to All.