Sentences with phrase «about homosexuals as»

Your image of the Bible and how you understand its authority will also affect your way of interpreting what the Bible says about homosexuals as persons.

Likewise, is there only one way to think about homosexuals as persons?

Not exact matches

Conservative commentator and former Alberta Report publisher Ted Byfield, age 88, shared some pretty disgusting opinions about GSAs on his blog, referring to the student - organized anti-bullying clubs as «sex clubs» designed to push a homosexual agenda.

This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.

I'll wager that if he looks around Floyd County, Virginia, he'll find about as many homosexuals relative to the overall population as here in Cook County, Illinois, though the former are certainly obliged to hide it much better.

Homosexual acts by their nature arbitrate against the procreative dimension, as discussed in the previous section about the sacred interplay.

I read two articles last year (which I didn't document, like you, thinking it was out of the question) about pedophiles making the exact same argument as the present day argument that homosexuals have taken from the cause of the Black people; «they were born that way.»

As to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his FatheAs to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Fatheas a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Father.

As Ignacio introduced me to feminism and liberation, Ed taught me about homosexuals and the suffering they undergo in a patriarchal society.

I think Jay may be writing in response to Mark Richmond's comment above where he basically says that what Christians say about homosexuals and women is not as bad as what Muslims say?

That phrase is not used here in the law about male homosexual acts It is not one of the laws against things that are identified as a toebah to God!»

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

I mean, c» mon, he wrote about reaching out to homosexuals, to embrace them as Jesus would have embraced them.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

Books such as Homosexuality, which incessantly talk about the fears, frustrations, angers, and depressions involved in being homosexual, inadvertently reinforce the reasons why parents hope their children will not be homosexual.

It is odd that the Bell case, in many ways as searingly important as Captain Dreyfus was to Zola's generation of Frenchmen, has so far barely raised a whisper in English public life, while disputes about homosexual clergy or women bishops command attention.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

But I would not be prepared to say, as the increasing quantities of homosexual propaganda want us to, that the one problem about homosexuals is their civil rights in the larger sense.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Can what a homosexual (who's trying to justify his behaviour) says to me about my conduct as a Christian edify me?

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

One thing I love about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.

As part of my studies in college, I had read the Kinsey studies about how common homosexual experiences were among straight men — and I fancied myself something of a sophisticate at the ripe old age of 21.

«Contrary to comments by GLSEN falsely labeling the Day of Truth as «inappropriate and divisive,» the event was always about the right of students to peacefully express their point of view on the subject of homosexual behavior,» the statement said.

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

Psychiatrists and others connected with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), however, say that the psychotherapeutic success rate with homosexuals is about the same as with other patients struggling to overcome a deep - seated problem, namely, about one - third.

st Corinthians 6:9 - 10 — the word homosexual was added later by a prejudice scribe, most scholars will tell you it's about male prostitution and nothing in there is about the saved long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.

On the contrary, even Karl Barth, who uncompromisingly rejects homosexual partnerships as out of step with the Creator's intention, writes that such unions are often «redolent of sanctity» (Church Dogmatics III / 4, p. 166) because they are about the struggle to give and receive love.

We now see that this question presupposes both what we know and ways we think about the Bible, homosexual persons, and ourselves as interpreters.

Seen sub specie aeternitatis, encouraging someone to believe that we don't really know what God thinks about sexuality, and that each of us must work it out for ourselves, and anyway it doesn't matter much as long as we do our recycling and volunteer at a homeless shelter, is as serious an error as telling them that God hates them because they have homosexual feelings.

First, concerned about the influence of paganism upon the Roman Christians, Paul sees homosexual expression as a result of idolatry, but he does not claim that such practices are the cause of God's wrath.

Traditional teaching about sexuality, and in particular about homosexuality, was recognized as repressive and as having led to horrible treatment of homosexuals.

As Pearce notes about much contemporary work on Shakespeare: «For the proponents of «queer theory» he becomes conveniently homosexual; for secular fundamentalists he is a proto - secularist, ahead of his time; for «post-Christian» agnostics he becomes a prophet of modernity.»

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

Justice Blackmun responded that the case was not about «a fundamental right to engage in homosexual relations,» as the majority opinion pretended.

Similarly, having a homosexual brother, Harry, likely led Vince to feel as strongly as he did about sexual orientation as he did about race.

In a letter to all cabinet ministers, he wrote: «Catholic teaching about the foundations of family life, a teaching shared not only by other Christian churches but also other faiths, means that Catholic adoption agencies would not be able to recruit and consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.

Pagoto and her team are pursuing another study to delve more deeply into who tans, asking questions about sexual orientation, given that recent research has revealed that homosexual men are just as likely to use tanning beds as young women.

There is no reason why you should let these feelings overcome you, or let other opinions of those you care about, such as family members or friends, negatively influence your life when it comes to finding love, relationships, and homosexual dating.

«Impastor» is about a cannabis - smoking man, who poses as a homosexual pastor in a small town to try and hide from a loan shark.

About the author: Frank Duru is the author of many different articles but his works concentrate much on dating related information, such as «Homosexual Dating - Truth and Connection», «Asian Dating - Respect and Honour».

A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Even so, he starts making about - face statements such as, «I was a heterosexual person with a homosexual problem.»

The films are Christine Vachon's «A Man In Your Room» (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

Yet as the story unfolds, Egoyan gives us plenty to think about, from the plight of a homosexual German to the various motivations and justifications of the guards, without preaching, showing gruesome flashbacks, or making his points too obvious.

Like Hittman's filmmaking to some degree, the young actor manages to convey a lot about Frankie's anguished inner life through purely physical means: the tense way he carries himself around his male friends, as if afraid he'll betray hints of his inner homosexual desires, or the soft - spoken line readings which tremble with inarticulate internal tensions.