{"id":339,"date":"2013-12-22T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/12\/americas-only-gay-iman.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:31:34","slug":"americas-only-gay-iman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/12\/americas-only-gay-iman.html","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Only Gay Iman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZNSEiOAX418\/Ur3CIiytBVI\/AAAAAAAAE84\/Ej7fy6fcARs\/s1600\/iman.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZNSEiOAX418\/Ur3CIiytBVI\/AAAAAAAAE84\/Ej7fy6fcARs\/s400\/iman.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Conservatives and liberals clash in every faith. Just last week, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/12\/methodist-minister-defrocked-officiated.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Methodist church defrocked<\/a> a Pennsylvania minster for officiating the gay wedding of his son. Now, America\u2019s only openly gay Muslim Iman, Daayiee Abdullah, \u00a0faces criticism. \u00a0He tells <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/watch\/shows\/america-tonight\/america-tonight-blog\/2013\/12\/20\/meet-america-s-firstopenlygayimam.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aljazeera America <\/a>that \u201csome local imams have refused to greet him, and many others across the country argue his work performing same-sex marriage is not legitimate, and that he should control his \u201curges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can read more about Abdullah in <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/watch\/shows\/america-tonight\/america-tonight-blog\/2013\/12\/20\/meet-america-s-firstopenlygayimam.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this Aljazeera America story<\/a> and you can see part two of the video in which Abdulah explains how he reconciles his faith with his life. You can also read about Abdullah in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/imam-daayiee-abdullah-welcomes-gay-muslims-to-worship-marry\/2013\/04\/17\/3ebcab3a-a5db-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this Washington Post story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives and liberals clash in every faith. Just last week, for example, the Methodist church defrocked a Pennsylvania minster for officiating the gay wedding of his son. Now, America\u2019s only openly gay Muslim Iman, Daayiee Abdullah, \u00a0faces criticism. \u00a0He tells Aljazeera America that \u201csome local imams have refused to greet him, and many others across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>America&#039;s Only Gay Iman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conservatives and liberals clash in every faith. 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