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Muslim--Christian Gay Marriage

For the first time in the Nordic countries, a Christian-Muslim gay couple got married.

Knut Egil Asprusten (44) and Kaltham Alexander Lie (49) got married in Oslo two weeks ago. They've been together since last October.

Kaltham Lie, who had been tortured in Iraq for being gay, was visibly moved and tears in his eyes after the ceremony. As an immigrants, Muslim, gay and now married to a Christian, he knows very well what it's like being to be stigmatized.

Tags: Norway, gay marriage, muslim-christian

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Permalink Reply by Justin Bonaparte on July 2, 2011 at 8:53pm

Now that's a feckin "mixed" marriage! None of this Protestant and Catholic "mixed" bullshit.

Haha, too right!

Permalink Reply by Sandy on July 2, 2011 at 10:17pm

Excellent! Love Dara's stuff.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 2, 2011 at 8:53pm

Uh, how can a man who had been tortured for being gay by men whose motivation was the Muslim faith, still embrace that same faith? That's just as bad as gay Catholics.

Permalink Reply by Sandy on July 2, 2011 at 9:28pm

Yes, I was surprised when I read that they both "believed deeply in their faiths". He probably tells himself that all the gay-bashing Muslims are "perverting" Islam, just like all the moderate Muslims tell themselves that fundamentalists are "perverting the religion of peace". If you're deeply indoctrinated, you'll manage to live with the cognitive dissonance any way you can.

Permalink Reply by Dustin Williams on July 2, 2011 at 10:33pm

They both have to have some serriously damaging cognitive dissonance. I wonder if either on thinks that one of them or both of them are going to hell.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 3, 2011 at 7:24pm

Probably not, since all theists pick and choose what they believe -- and it's often those things which cast their wants and needs in a good light.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 3, 2011 at 7:23pm

Absolutely Sandy.

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on July 4, 2011 at 11:09am

And at the same time, the fundamentalists tell themselves that the moderates are not real Muslims...we can't forget that.

Permalink Reply by Cody Gaisser on July 2, 2011 at 10:10pm

That it could happen at all is progress of some sort... I think.

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on July 4, 2011 at 11:11am

Yeah, despite the "eww, how can they still be religious?" reaction, I still see it as progress. They are accepting of gays and people of other religions. Their cognitive dissonance is their own problem.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on July 2, 2011 at 11:08pm