Sentences with phrase «act as a homosexual»
So bisexual man, can act as heterosexual (man and woman) or act as a homosexual (same - sex).
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Mr. Kramer is the founder of ACT - UP, a homosexual organization that promotes protest as perpetual obnoxiousness, and the subject of the play is the much neglected question of AIDS.
Homosexual acts by their nature arbitrate against the procreative dimension, as discussed in the previous section about the sacred interplay.
The Civil Partnership Act, passed in November 2004, raised homosexual relationships to the same status as marriage by granting the same rights to couples entering a civil partnership as to spouses entering marriage.
Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.
The prohibition in the Bible applies only so long as male homosexual acts are perceived to be offensive.
We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)
The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.
Yes, we need to, as Christians, LIVE God's way, but we also need to be light and salt and not just stick our head in the sand and act like... or give the impression that... homosexual marriage, genocide, and abortion are ok, by our lack of speaking out because we're too busy living our own little holy lives.
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!»
As for acting out of personal arrogance, the mistreatment, even abuse, of those on the fringes of society is what I was saying leads me to question the treatment of homosexual people.
«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.»
Those who commit homosexual acts or fornication must repent — as all of us must do — with our own sins.
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).
The point is that, as heterosexual men are attracted to young women, homosexual men are attracted to young men, and homosexual priests have more opportunities to act on their attractions.
Persons choosing homosexual acts are not speaking the «language of the body,» in which the body itself is integral to their union as bodily beings.
Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»
Therefore, homosexual acts damage «the body's capacity for the marital act as an act of self - giving which constitutes a communion of bodily persons.»
Those who lift up homosexual acts as that which is to be condemned and eradicated are attacking what Paul regards as the symptoms, not the cause.
The Catholic Church has always condemned homosexual acts as «intrinsically evil», as well as of course distinguishing clearly between wounded tendencies, sin, and sinner.
Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.
The gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.
Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?
Please explain to my ignorant worldview how Romans 1:18 - 32 does not at least speak of homosexual activity as perversion and how 1 Corinthians 6 does not speak against the homosexual act when the Greek Paul used clearly states in his sin list both partners in the homosexual act.
For the same Paul who condemns homosexual acts as sinful is the Paul who tells women like Anita Bryant to remain silent in the church (I Cor.
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.»
However, I believe that if we seek to understand why Paul saw homosexual acts as radically contrary to God's design for human sexuality, we will come to understand both the Gospel itself — and that design — much more deeply.
President Robert Mugabe has gone so far as to compare homosexual acts with animal behavior.
But this form of homosexual behavior — an act that is chosen — is quite different from homosexual Christians today who may not remember knowing themselves as other than homosexual in orientation.
Today, the once - controversial circumcision debate can be addressed in passing, as Paul could speak in passing of the sinfulness of homosexual acts.
Homosexual acts are described as being.
Only homosexual activity is disapproved, since «the Church sees these acts as attaining their full significance only in the context of marriage.»
This raises the conventional litany of dissent, including items such as the ordination of women and the moral acceptance of homosexual acts.
By so cavalierly dismissing as unjust the traditional Jewish ban on homosexual acts» a ban undisputed throughout the whole history of Jewish law» he shows that this whole tradition is not normative for him, but only the source of selective guidance or misguidance.
If we do not have a Telos, then there could not possibly be a problem with homosexual acts or same - sex marriage — or with many other things as well.
The Roman Catholic church maintains this position, recently describing the homosexual orientation as an «objective disorder».15 In Protestant and Anglican churches, a distinction is now often made between a homosexual orientation and homosexual genital acts; the orientation is part of some people's God - given make - up and not something for which they should be condemned.
As long as we do not succumb to sinful acts, why does it matter if people — even we Christians — continue to identify as homosexuals or heterosexualAs long as we do not succumb to sinful acts, why does it matter if people — even we Christians — continue to identify as homosexuals or heterosexualas we do not succumb to sinful acts, why does it matter if people — even we Christians — continue to identify as homosexuals or heterosexualas homosexuals or heterosexuals?
c) This passage does not denounce homosexual behavior as a whole, but just the specific act of anal sex.
Outrage was heightened as the two cases involved homosexual acts.
This point is just as relevant, of course, to any type of self - destructive behavior, or to acts of economic injustice, as it is to homosexual practice.
As I walked away, I realised that the rally had been a protest in favour of gay rights and later, that Wednesday 23rd February 1994 was the day the government lowered the age of consent for homosexual acts from 21 to 18.
«Masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action,» the church said in a statement Monday that characterized «homosexual acts» as «acts of grave depravity.»
If we are persuaded that there may be a third category of sexual vocation, then the homosexual may further ask: How is my homosexuality to be acted out in such a way as to contribute to God's purposes for me and my fellow human beings?
With respect to the understanding of homosexuality, therefore, neither homosexual condition nor homosexual inclination nor specifically homosexual acts may be interpreted as excluding one from the domain of God's gracious intention.
It is true, of course, that women have a federal right to have abortions, while homosexuals do not (as yet) have a federal right to perform acts of sodomy.
In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»
The Flagbearer of the People's National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has said although he loves homosexuals and will not discriminate against them as a Christian, as a medical practitioner, he considers their act unhealthy.
He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»
The legislation, signed into law on 24 February by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, mandates prison terms of up to 14 years for homosexual acts and life imprisonment for «aggravated homosexuality,» such as sexual acts with a minor.
Some fairly graphic homosexual acts won't go over well with more conservative viewers, and devout Catholics may be upset at yet another depiction of the church as full of pedophiles and sexual deviants in the clergy, although I'm going to guess that no one from either group is likely to pick up this movie to view, even accidentally.