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Originally Posted by Jamie89
The interesting thing about this poll is that knowing the muslim religion is anti-gay, how come only 52% of those polled hold those views? It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been 5/10/20 years ago and if it's a sign that it's changing for the better. It would also be interesting to know if there's a difference between age groups in how they responded to get an idea again of how things might be changing.
That's the key thing for me anyway, whether or not we're seeing any kind of progression. It wasn't that long ago (relatively) that being gay was illegal and I can accept some muslims taking longer to catch up than the rest of us, as long as they are catching up.
In my own personal experience of this, I have a friend who is gay and muslim and I know how difficult it is for him. He's in a long term relationship, and his parents know that he's living with a man (although he hasn't told them he's gay he believes they know) and yet he is still considering that at some point he should marry a woman and leave his 'gay life' behind him for the sake of his family. So there's obviously a problem as people like him shouldn't feel like that in modern UK society and we shouldn't ignore that problem, but if the 48% are growing then the problem might not be as bad as we think?
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Keep in mind that a lot of Muslims don't practice their faith. Those who do, will be against homosexuality as will types of Jews and Christians.