The Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Qabalan addressed in a statement, "to everyone who wants to change Lebanon's moral identity." He stated: "Ethics are a necessary component, indeed an existential one, for Lebanon, including human ethics and the natural system that guarantees social ethics, because some deviant butchers want to destroy human structure and alter the natural order in favor of the worst kinds of human deviation, which is strongly rejected, and we will never accept it and it will not materialize in Lebanon. The dangerous part is that some judicial decisions are working to establish judicial protection for the worst ethical plague alongside promotional projects that pressure to undermine the spirit of Lebanon's natural ethics."
He continued: "Whatever happens, the issue of public ethics is not a trade of scrap or a sick game but rather an issue of identity and natural and human roots as substantial as the essence of human existence. The homosexual group is not rights activists; they are patients whose natural place is psychological and health clinics. Here, I say to feminist and male homosexual groups drowning in perversion: despite all the disasters that have befallen Lebanon, it will not become a haven for homosexuals, and the solution lies in psychiatric and health clinics, not in legalizing deviation and protecting it. Those who think Gilbert Baker is a symbol of their inclinations should go to San Francisco, as it is closer to them than Beirut. Those who insist on homosexuality should make Manhattan their homeland for their emotional and psychological madness; personal freedom, when it collides with fundamental natural laws, becomes an enemy to nature and humanity."
He added: "We will never accept changing the laws of nature and humanity in this country; the issue is one of identity, constitution, and eternal natural ethics, far away from the coffins of the pink triangle and the graves of the rainbow that reek of psychological destruction and emotional madness." Qabalan concluded: "Regarding civil marriage, I say: modernize your state and keep personal status matters away from political graves, and let us read together about the graves of civil marriage globally because the issue is one of humanity, creation, and formation, not a matter of fashion, advertising, and conflicting forces that write family laws with barroom alcohol."
