Homosexuals and transgenders are by definition those who enjoy having homosexual / transgender behavior. Therefore, if I am understanding you correctly, your complaint is that many of those people are hoping for your clear acceptance of themselves as they are.
I suppose I can understand that to a point at least. I was raised in a somewhat homophobic culture. We all just knew that gays would of course hide their homosexuality, expect and accept to be put into ridicule, or both.
Trust me, it all changes once you begin to actually meet those people in person and realize that they are not any better or worse than anyone else; they just have some specific gender orientations, which are neither harmful nor of their choice.
There is ultimately no more reason to question the morality of homosexuality or gender disphoria than there is to question our own being sexually attracted to a certain body type over others.
That is just part of what the person is. It has no moral meaning of its own.
That may or may not be true, although one can't help but notice that there is hardly even a rumor about a LGBT rights movement among Muslims, so forgive me if I assume that you are indeed right.
And in that case, what you are saying is that Islam is seriously misguided and must be challenged fiercely, to its destruction if need be, as long as it refuses to accept the inherent rights of people who do no evil and whose only crime is not fitting in the expectations of Muslims.
Actually, it is not, and has never been, nor can it ever be.
You claim to believe that God states through the Quran that you have that right.
I won't dispute the accuracy of that claim, but I will point out that it is demonstrably, irrevocably wrong.
To reject and condemn homosexuality is, quite simply, immoral. It is giving oneself the right of disregarding and trampling over very basic rights and needs of other human beings. That you seem to sincerely believe that you do so because God told you that it is so changes nothing; your beliefs do not excuse you of basic moral discernment and responsibility.
Hardly.
You have freedom of belief, and by extension of religion, certainly. But that does not spare you, or anyone, from the basic moral duties and responsibilities that everyone has.
That should make no difference whatsoever when it comes to respect and acceptance of homosexuals and transgenders, though.
Yes, albeit probably in far lesser numbers.
It does not make much of a difference, though. Humanity is basically destined to destroy itself eventually. Any attempts at shaping that eventual outcome by proposing deep, cruel self-aggression are by definition pointless.
Yes.
One reason to have that discussion is to decide whether and to which extent the Bible is of use as a morality guide. It is not entitled to over-rule basic decency.
Another is that, like it or not, we exist among other human beings and our beliefs and actions influence each other's well-being. We can't really wait until God makes his opinion manifest.
Last but not least, going by the usual standards of interpreting the Bible, it no more condemns homosexuality than it condones abominable behaviors such as slavery and genocide.
