Sentences with phrase «abstaining from sexual»

Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.

Be sure to follow your doctor's advice about abstaining from sexual intercourse for a set amount of time and using pads rather than tampons during the initial bleeding.

In the age of AIDS, only two choices are really open to Christian gay people in conformity with Christian values: abstaining from all sexual activity — a response which the majority find impossible - or entering a monogamous relationship.

If a human being has the gender of «female» AND that same human being is the property of a man / woman / master, then the Bible, in both the OT and the NT, under Law and under Grace, endorses / mandates abstaining from sexual intercourse.

But my question is this, if being straight isn't about sex, then a «straight» couple would have no problem abstaining from any sexual act and just love the hell out of each other.

But my question is this, if being gay isn't about sex, then a «gay» couple would have no problem abstaining from any sexual act and just love the hell out of each other.

Lacking such a relation, people are apt to feel that their lives are lacking a basic good, and it therefore makes no sense to most of them to say that, because they are not married, can not marry, or ought not to marry, that they ought also to abstain from sexual relations.

He has accepted Christ in his life and we want to abstain from any sexual behaviour.

The study found that the children were 33 per cent more likely to abstain from sexual activity over a two - year period than children who attended interventions stressing the importance of safesex or of maintaining good health generally.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in holiness and honor... not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights... About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is not necessary for me to write to you.

The surest way to avoid transmission of HIV is to abstain from sexual intercourse or to be in a long - term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner.»

Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:3 tells us, «For this is the will of God, your sanctification: abstain from sexual immorality (porneia).»

No, we only ask you to abstain from sexual intercourse during the time you are injecting the stimulation medication and then directly following the retrieval, approximately three weeks.

«Men with a pregnant sex partner who reside in or have traveled to an area of active Zika virus transmission and their pregnant sex partners should consistently and correctly use condoms during sex (vaginal, anal, or oral) or abstain from sexual activity for the duration of the pregnancy,» said the CDC.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

Scmnewline Prevention of genital herpes The most complete method to prevent transmission of sexually - transmitted infection like genital herpes would be to abstain from sexual contact or to make sure you simply engage in sexual contact with someone who has - been analyzed and isn't infected.

Abstain from sexual contact when you have symptoms of herpes as you will be shedding virus, probably from several sites.Even if you do all of these, there is no guarantee that you will not pass the virus on.You may also need to consider the potential legal repercussions of choosing not to tell your sexual partners that you have the herpes virus.

She divorced me because her spirit had persuaded her to become a vegetarian, fast, and abstain from sexual activity.

In our 2015 regulatory round - up (here), we described the ongoing dispute arising in the Trinity Western cases, where three professional regulatory bodies — law societies in three provinces (B.C., Ontario and Nova Scotia)-- refused to accredit a religious university which required that students sign a «community covenant» requiring that they abstain from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman.

These cases address the power to address the discriminatory aspects of a requirement by a school students sign a «community covenant» requiring that they abstain from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman.

In order to differentiate intimacy and sex, my husband and I abstained from sexual interactions for periods of time, so that we could reflect on our personal relationships to sex and intimacy.

But when young people choose not to abstain from sexual intercourse and when they do not have accurate information about contraceptives, including where to obtain them and how to use them they are also facing serious sexual health risks (e.g., unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections) that will affect their future as adults.

Because epididymitis is so commonly associated with STDs, it is important to abstain from all sexual contact until you receive your diagnosis and, if applicable, complete your treatment.

Moreover, few studies focus on the many African American youth who evince highly conventional sexual partner trajectories, i.e., youth who have only one partner or abstain from sexual activity across time.

Sexual addiction or sexual compulsion is different from many other addictions in that the end goal of therapy is not for you to abstain from sexual activity, but to have a healthy and normal sex life.

Not exact matches

Instead we should write to them telling them to abstain from food sacrificed to idols... sexual immorality... meat from strangled animals... from blood.

So Laaser reached out to secular 12 - step programs, using Alcoholics Anonymous» framework as a guide to reaching what he called sexual «sobriety,» abstaining from sex outside of marriage and avoiding masturbation.

And true purity must come from someone who abstains for sexual activity.

As well as eating and drinking, the faithful are expected to abstain from smoking and sexual relations between dawn and dusk, and to abjure lies, slander, greed, covetousness, giving false oath and denouncing someone behind their back (all of these are prohibited throughout the year by Islam.

I know of a few people in my life who love Christ and want to abstain from sin, but they are struggling with sexual sin or sinful desires.

It says You are to abstain from food sacrificed idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

Delegate Al Quie, the former governor of Minnesota, had offered a resolution earlier in the day: «Rostered leadership of this church who are homosexual in their self understanding are expected to abstain from homosexual sexual relations and practicing homosexual persons are precluded from rostered leadership in this church.»

Also of concern are emerging sexually transmitted diseases, which, once introduced, may be difficult to control because it is hard to persuade humans to change sexual behavior or to abstain from sex.

And even if a child abstains from early sexual activity, she is still unprotected, Koutsky says: «Your child may abstain until marriage, but her partner might not.

WHO already urges male Ebola survivors who do not know the status of their semen to abstain from sex or use condoms when engaging in sexual activity for at least six months.

As the red carpet winds down, it's worth noting that the two appeared to abstain from speaking with Ryan Seacrest — who himself is at the center of a sexual abuse scandal.

They could replace lessons on sexual health with lessons on abstaining from sex... and that's terrifying.»

The Senators» reticence to take a position might seem like an unwise political choice, given the backlash some State Assemblymembers received last year when they abstained from voting on a bill that proposed streamlining the firing process for teachers accused of sexual and physical abuse.

A Christian - based university, TWU requires students sign a community covenant, which requires students to abstain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

Trinity Western University views sexual relations outside of a marriage between one man and one woman as inconsistent with «biblical and TWU ideals», and requires its students and faculty to agree to abstain from such activities.

The school, of course, remains controversial given the various legal challenges related to its community covenant agreement that includes a statement about abstaining from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

The school requires all students and faculty sign a pledge to abstain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

«In keeping with biblical and TWU ideals, community members voluntarily abstain from the following actions:... sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman»

All students vow to abstain from sex outside marriage, whatever their sexual orientation.

Students are not happy with the private Christian university's covenant, which requires students to abstain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

Protesters disagree with TWU's community covenant, which requires students to abstain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

At issue is the school's community covenant agreement that includes a statement about abstaining from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

The school's community covenant agreement includes a statement about abstaining from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»

At the heart of this debate is TWU's Community Covenant Agreement — a mandatory pledge for incoming students requiring them to abstain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»