Sentences with phrase «as a homosexual in»

Thiel says he himself was a victim of the blurring of that line when Gawker outed him as a homosexual in 2007 without his permission.

He is identified as a homosexual in the Reformed Church of the Netherlands which formally approves, inter alia, gay partners as ministers.

It was partly autobiographical of the relationship Mills had with his father and his coming out as a homosexual in his older age.

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Moore, who identifies as an evangelical Christian and views homosexuality as a lifestyle that is «against nature,» said in a 2005 interview on C - SPAN2 that he believes «homosexual conduct should be illegal.»

So terms like a homosexual lifestyle and homosexual activity are easily painted as bad or good, with no points in between.

But perfect love casts out fear... if he perfectly loved, there would be no reason for him fear that we are destroying America... no fear for us to teach sunday school... and no fear of the future when homosexuals are accepted as equals, even in Alabama (where I live) or in whatever southern state fishon is in.

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.

«Responsible homosexuals would join Paul in condemning anyone who uses children for sex, just as we would join anyone else in condemning the threatened gang rape in Sodom or the behavior of the sex - crazed priests and priestesses in Rome.

My question is: Shouldn't the preachers» brainstorming on homosexual activity in more and more disrespectful details be considered as perversion and a sin?

preacherlady said, on November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Fishon... thats as prejudiced a statement to condemn something because it was written by a homosexual as it was to judge you because you are Church of Christ -------- Alice, the Bible doesn't condemn being in or of the Church of Christ, but it does condemn practicing homosexuality and as I said before, calls it....

For a while the notion that homosexuality was a «choice» (as in the phrase «sexual preference») was homosexual - movement orthodoxy; in recent years the correct line has been that it's somehow inherent.

And since marriage is a union between one man and one woman — as with Adam and Eve in the garden — homosexual marriage is wrong.

He asserts that «homosexual relationships, even in their current, somewhat eclectic form, may contain features that could nourish the broader society as well.»

In order for things to change, pastors and Christian leaders who believe that acceptance, fidelity, and monogamy are a better alternative to shame and promiscuity have got to speak up and speak out against the teaching that states * all * homosexual expression is sinful... and proclaim that message as misinformed, damaging to God's children, and unchristian.

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.

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

As is typically the case in this genre, the author's rage is directed at the Cardinal's abiding by church teaching on abortion and the homosexual «lifestyle.»

Brunne is described as the «first openly lesbian bishop in the world,» living «in a registered homosexual partnership» — with another lesbian priest — and «has received a church blessing» for it.

Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.

One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

I love the argument he makes, even while I am a progressive Christian who accepts homosexuals as equals in the eyes of God.

This is dramatically clear in the movement to establish homosexual unions as an alternative kind of family.

The theological issues are far from resolved; but, judging from what has happened in Bloomington, even conservative Christians (though traditionally among those most opposed to gay civil rights) are learning that theological concerns need not blind any of us to the needs and rights of homosexuals as human beings.

Maybe a few are struggling not to indulge in homosexual activities, and these could be possibly christians as well.

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In addition to seeking cooperation, from gay movements in mainline Christian bodies, such as Dignity (Roman Catholic) and Integrity (Episcopalian), the group has invited Ralph Blair, director of the Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York citIn addition to seeking cooperation, from gay movements in mainline Christian bodies, such as Dignity (Roman Catholic) and Integrity (Episcopalian), the group has invited Ralph Blair, director of the Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York citin mainline Christian bodies, such as Dignity (Roman Catholic) and Integrity (Episcopalian), the group has invited Ralph Blair, director of the Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York citin New York city.

On one end is the noncompromising «sin perspective» summarized in these words from an article in a conservative periodical: «The New Testament blasts homosexual activity as the lowest, most degraded kind of immorality» (Alliance Witness, July i6, 1975).

Nor is it fair to compel a child from a home that embraces historic Christian sexual norms to attend a school in which the teachers portray homosexual practice or open marriage as just one of many equally acceptable lifestyle options.

For the premises were firmly in place: Justice Kennedy had said that people in homosexual relations «seek autonomy» for themselves, just as people in heterosexual relations do.

In the shift from sin to inferiority, the Editorial Board assumes that if Cochran believes that homosexuality is sin, he must believe homosexuals are «inferior» or «second - class citizens,» as the editorial later claims.

There's such a tendency among Christians to lump all homosexuals together as a group of faceless, nameless «perverts» and to make statements not rooted in fact.

Engaging or not engaging in homosexual activities is viewed as a choice, and thus the power of Christ is needed to enable the person to change or resist homosexual temptations.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Reparative therapy, however, should in no way be presented as a requirement for the homosexual person.

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

Listening to our law in our bodies It is just as inappropriate for the homosexual person to «do what he wants with his body.»

As Dr Mark Yarhouse, a dean of Regent college showed, those gay believing men married to a heterosexual woman, remain homosexual in orientation.

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

These sentiments, common place in the homosexual rights movement, could easily have been those of slaveholders and those involved in the slave trade, and as such they would strike us as ludicrous.

Cindy, I have no agenda regarding homosexual individuals and in roughly 1000 posts on my blog I have not even covered it once, as far as I can remember.

Note well that the homosexual person, in living chastely, is in a most noble way doing something profoundly positive: by not misusing his sexuality he is respectfully acknowledging that ultimately our generative faculties are not ours to use as we please; the sacred interplay is God's territory wherein we participate, not over which we arbitrate.

Wesley Hill understands that, as a faithfully Christian homosexual man, he is not in the only category of people who are not called to sexual activity.

I would be happy to debate the question as to whether homosexual activity is in itself inherently sinful, but this was not my statement as you suggest.

But I also say that people who choose other lifestyles, heterosexual or homosexual, should be accepted, just as atheists and libertarians are accepted, in the hope that they will come to faith in Jesus which will presumably involve repentance.

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.

I have a hunch that this type of book is quite rare, because its subject matter is homosexuality and the struggle involved in «being gay» as well as embracing orthodox Christianity's teaching on the homosexual orientation.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

Before and for a long time after the word homosexual came into English (in 1892 in a translation of Krafft - Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis), attractions and friendships, thoughts and actions, were universally classified as ordered and disordered.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

Having established that homosexual relationships are the same as heterosexual relationships the next step of promoting homosexual relationships as equal in providing a suitable environment to raise children logically and actually followed.