Sentences with phrase «as a gay person taught»

I don't think I'm by any means unique, when I say that as a gay person taught from an evangelical tradition, you have little choice but to seriously evaluate your position as «Christian».

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Societyvs asked: As for Fishon, he thinks being gay is a sin... I wonder if he would allow an openly gay person to teach Sunday school or even lead service once in a while?

Doomsdayers aren't hurting Christianity, Mr Jeffres, as much as people like you are; you stole books from the Wichita Falls public library because they were trying to teach the children of gay people that their parents might be normal, loving human beings, and you accompanied it with a media campaign that raised $ 1 million that same year for your church through bigoted, close - minded sermons.

Their move to a Catholic church was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to contempt.

Yet, as Bishop Spong points out, if it was a gay male who taught the Christian church what the love of God means, who defined grace for all people; and who, tortured and rejected as he must have felt, came to understand what resurrection means as God's vindicating act, then in a sense we do owe him a debt of gratitude.

Kind of like Adam I, and most gay people, had to be taught to be ashamed of their sexuality and much like Adam I also remember as a teenager being so shy about showing any skin.

Here «the manner in which Church teaching is conveyed» is acknowledged as contributing to the prejudices against gay and lesbian people.

It's kind of telling that the same people who are against gay marriage are also for teaching intelligent design in schools as an accepted scientific theory.

The irony of it all is that the central point of the Bible is God's love for sinners like you and me, and these guys teach as if a person is gay, they are beyond the life changing power of God.

«And our party leader, David Cameron, has publicly apologised for Section 28, legislation introduced by a previous Conservative government which effectively prohibited the teaching of the validity of gay relationships in schools, a law which was deeply unpopular not just amongst gay people, but with those who saw it as a divisive and unpleasant sign of state intolerance.

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