In the Boy Scouts case, the Court found that preventing discrimination
against homosexuals by private organizations was not a sufficiently compelling state interest.
Not exact matches
Jamie Murray was warned
by two police officers to stop playing DVDs of the New Testament in his cafe following a complaint from a customer that it was inciting hatred
against homosexuals.
The NEA failed to reach its goal, however, not just because it was dumb enough to finance the infamous Piss Christ, the anti-Catholic propaganda of
homosexual activism, along with Robert Mapplethorpe's sadomasochistic sex photographs, but because it became somehow seized
by the wrong - headed notion that art is good only when it sets itself
against the political and social status quo.
They see him as the head of a backward - looking, misogynistic organization that continues to thwart social progress
by her stands
against homosexual relationships and the use of prophylactics to thwart the spread of AIDS.
Homosexual acts
by their nature arbitrate
against the procreative dimension, as discussed in the previous section about the sacred interplay.
Very impressed that you will speak out
against adultery
by remarriage, or adulterous behavior, even more than you speak out
against homosexual marriage and / or
homosexual behavior... after all, the direct words of Jesus should carry far more impact than just the words of Paul or Moses, right?
Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured
by sin, and therefore that
homosexual practice goes
against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
I know that being from the US Bible Belt that
by and large
homosexuals are greatly persecuted and often not allowed to be members of their churches... even going so far as seeing hate crimes committed
against them....
If
homosexuals were allowed to serve in the military and occupy the same quarters, how does a commanding officer respond to the charge that,
by allowing
homosexuals to room together, he is discriminating
against heterosexuals if he denies them as unmarried men and women the similar right of sharing the same quarters?
Supporters of a change in the current DOD policy argue that just as blacks and women experienced discrimination in the past, so too are
homosexuals discriminated
against today
by being excluded from military service.
Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence
against homosexual people
by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.
A more balanced and realistic approach is found in another study, titled The Prejudice
against Homosexuals and the Ministry of the Church, published
by the Washington State Catholic Conference in 1983.
Giglio was initially invited
by the President's inauguration committee in part because of his work
against sexual trafficking, and then encouraged to withdraw because of his sermon condemning
homosexual behavior.
It can be seen that the reason that churches are
against homosexual marriage is not because it is explicitly said
by God, but because of a lack of instruction to specifically allow it.
This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «life form» in order to safeguard polite society
against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went into [the
homosexual's] total composition was unaffected
by his sexuality.
In particular, it is a response to the threat
against the family represented
by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands
by a small minority of activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as
homosexual «marriage».
The 1992 analysis
by Stephen Green (The Sexual Dead End, Broad View) indicates that in this country a
homosexual male is 23 times more likely to offend
against a boy under 16 than a heterosexual male.
Pope Benedict XVI surprised many people this week
by saying the Vatican would oppose a U.N. declaration calling for an end to discrimination
against homosexuals.
This subject deserves better than the court of political correctness, whose authority, advocates of
homosexual marriage hope, will prevail until the law is voted on — a tribunal they defend
by means of disqualifying caricatures
against anyone who dares to question their project and their motives.
Which all leads to the fact that a significant number people in Russia realise how pointless it is and don't vote (unless they were swayed
by the vile / hilarious advert warning
against not voting in case you're conscripted or forced to have sex with irritating
homosexuals).
The three boys, were suspended after a disciplinary committee established they were
homosexuals, following a «caught - in - the - act» report made
against them
by their colleagues.
John Sentamu opened his latest Guardian piece
by saying that «the churches have, at times, been complicit in this [viz., discrimination
against homosexuals].
There have been pockets of instances where perceived
homosexuals have been attacked
by those
against the practice either on the basis of religion or culture.
Utah parents seek criminal penalties
against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute
by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including
homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»
Dean Sameshima
Against Nature: A group show of work
by homosexual men curated
by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins, January 6 through February 12, 1988, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2016 Painting - Acrylic on canvas 137 x 99 cm (53.94 x 38.98 in)
This conclusion is further supported
by... the witnesses» evidence, found, inter alia, that «One of the effects of criminal sanctions
against homosexual acts is to reinforce the misapprehension and general prejudice of the public and increase the anxiety and guilt feelings of
homosexuals leading, on occasions, to depression and the serious consequences which can follow from that unfortunate disease.»