God is not happy with this.
There's nothing wrong with it. You've not committed a crime.
What would you say? If she said, "I'm a lesbian"?
I'm sorry, but you've got to be selfish at this point.
It's tearing you apart to not tell your family.
It's important to tell your family because you're going to end up
making decisions that...you don't want to be making.
You're not going to be able to be
living your life as much as you want.
Maybe they feel that they can't talk to their parents and that
they might want to talk to their grandparent about it because
they might be a bit easier on them.
Mum, just listen to me, just for a minute, OK?
I love...
I love another woman, Mum.
I'm a lesbian.
Too far, too far.
It’s the right thing but her thoughts were wrong.
OK, it was good that she told her, but the thoughts were wrong.
What would you say?
If she said, "I'm a lesbian"?
What was I going to do? What do I know, I’d ask why?
Why? You'd ask why.
Mothers should be explained why not.
That it's wrong. Right, yeah. OK.
Being gay or lesbian, there's nothing wrong with it.
You've not committed a crime.
It's just who you are.
Despite the short-term, you know, anger, shock, hurt
that a parent might face,
the long-term consequences on that child are going to be a lot worse.
I would have recognised them character traits in my children.
They wouldn't one day turn round and burst into tears
and I'm putting them into a marriage and they say, "By the way, I'm gay."
It's a little bit with, like, the alcohol and with the food, I guess.
Sometimes it... It could be curiosity, Mum.
Would you try and convince her to like boys? No, no, no.
You wouldn't try and convince her? No.
It's nature’s wish. She says, if it's God's wish...
God's wish.
Just goes to show she's quite tolerant, then.
She's actually a bit modern!
You talk about 10 or 15 years ago,
the society and the family members were not familiar with that.
Some of them never knew about what is gay
and what is lesbian, you know.
No good. That's bad.
Because not any religion allows this. Ok.
We don't put that one on the table.
It's off our table.
I do same-sex marriages and have been doing so for the last 13 years
and who am I, when God puts two people together, to say no?
Islamic tradition, it is not valid.
In any court of law in the whole world in the Sharia court,
it will be thrown out of the court in just one minute.
The imam was really brave to have that marriage in the clip,
but if you go to the priest, some might say,
"No, I won't marry you. Sorry, that's against my religion."
God is not happy with this.
If God is not happy, we can't do anything.
We have proof of this, all the things in the Koran.
What is the point of a marriage?
It's about two things, unity and love,
and I don't think gender comes with that.
Our Maharaj, if he said to people it's ok to be gay and performed
those kinds of weddings what would you think?
..it's OK to be gay?
What would you think?
You have to let him do it, what can we say? It's his wish.
She says it's up to the priest. You can't stop him.
She wouldn't be happy about it,
but you can't stop him doing something that he wants to do.
Personally, if somebody invites me to a gay marriage
or a lesbian marriage, I will go.
I'll be honest, I thought you were going to say something different.
Why? I don't know. Just because you're older generation.
I thought you might say something different.
I might be older generation, but... He's not stupid.
No, no, no, I know he's not stupid, but it just shows,
doesn't it? That if...
Just cos I stereotype you, thinking that because you're older
that you might see things differently.
I think maybe the generation I'm in
would have a different perspective towards it.
Maybe because it's more of an open thing now and we see it more.
The time comes that all the religions will say,
"Well, that's common now," you know? Yeah.
Because they will accept it.