{"id":1469,"date":"2015-05-23T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2015-05-22T03:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T03:34:44","slug":"black-gay-imam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/05\/23\/black-gay-imam\/","title":{"rendered":"Black. Gay. Imam."},"content":{"rendered":"

“Think you have challenges in your life? What do you think the challenges are for a gay, black, Muslim who is the United States\u2019 first openly gay Imam?”<\/p>\n

Read more about Daayiee Abdullah, who lives and works in Washington, D.C.: Meet America\u2019s Only Openly Gay Imam<\/a><\/p>\n

But, isn’t being homosexual un-Islamic? No. As Abdullah points out, “there is absolutely no mention in the Koran about punishing gays, let alone killing them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Think you have challenges in your life? What do you think the challenges are for a gay, black, Muslim who is the United States\u2019 first openly gay Imam?” Read more about Daayiee Abdullah, who lives and works in Washington, D.C.: Meet America\u2019s Only Openly Gay Imam But, isn’t being homosexual un-Islamic? No. As Abdullah points…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16,83],"tags":[264,263],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-people","category-quran","tag-dc","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"\nBlack. Gay. 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