据《雅加达邮报》3月4日报道：宗教事务部长卢克曼·哈基姆·赛义夫丁表示，同性恋是一种疾病，因此伊斯兰教领导人不应激发穆斯林排斥女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性人(LGBT)，不让他们融入于社会。

卢克曼于周四说道：“伊斯兰教的本质是人道。因此，防止这些人遭排斥是我们的义务，更是宗教领袖的义务。”

卢克曼补充道，同性恋取向是一种疾病，所以这些人需要接受宗教上或心理上的治疗和疏导，因为通过治疗和疏导，希望同性恋可以改变他们的取向。

卢克曼说：“我们需要拥抱他们，然后他们会意识到他们生活在一个不接受同性恋的宗教社会。”

宗教事务部长已经要求伊斯兰组织和各省、摄政、市的宗教事务办公室向LGBT人群加强宗教疏导。

Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said homosexuality was an illness and therefore Islamic leaders should not provoke Muslims to expel lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from society.

"The essence of Islam is humanity. Therefore, it is our obligation, especially as religious leaders, to prevent them from being expelled," Lukman said on Thursday.

Same-sex orientation is an illness which is why [LGBT] people need to receive treatment and counseling, either religious or psychological, because with treatment and counseling, homosexual people can, hopefully, alter their orientation, Lukman added.

"We need to embrace them so they will be conscious that they live in a religious society which can't accept homosexuality," Lukman said.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has demanded that Islamic organizations and all religious affairs offices in provinces, regencies and cities, conduct intensive religious counseling for LGBT people.

Former religious affairs minister and prominent Muslim scholar M. Quraish Shihab made a similar statement.

"We have to take responsibility and show concern to people with same-sex orientation. Don't hate them. They are sick and need to be treated," Quraish said.

He underlined the opposition of Islamic teachings to the act of homosexuality. He cited a story in the Koran about God's punishment against the people of Sodom during the era of Prophet Lut in which the city was completely destroyed as a consequence of rampant homosexuality.

"Even animals don't want to have same-sex relationships. The homosexual act is against human nature," Quraish said.

He argued that same-sex orientation is unjustifiable under the principles of human rights. "Will you let people engage in the act that will destroy humanity?" he said. (bbn)

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