I argued that the love between two lesbians or two homosexuals, assuming that it is a constructive human love, is not sinful nor does it alienate the lovers from God's plan, but can be a holy love, mediating God's presence in the human community as effectively
as heterosexual love.
Not exact matches
The New Testament values of faithfulness,
love, sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced by
heterosexual couples without children — and by same - sex couples
as well.
Thatcher argues that gay and lesbian sexual unions express the sacrament of God's divine
love just
as heterosexual unions do.
How could one say, «We
love you
as a person, but we hate
heterosexual behavior, and we have no respect for your orientation
as a
heterosexual.
And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing
love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex relationship
as well
as it can be modeled in a committed
heterosexual relationship.
having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he
loves homosexuals
as much
as heterosexuals.
So long
as we embrace marriage with the same standards
as any monogamous,
loving heterosexual relationship there should be no barrier against us.
I don't believe the act itself is a sin if in a
loving and committed relationship; same
as heterosexuals.
Once
heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other
as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in
love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.
To portray same - sex and
heterosexual commitment
as mutually exclusively seems more a tactic of fear than one of
love and grace.
There is too little room in the
heterosexual box for either spouse in a marriage to develop fully her or his capacities for
loving humanity and God out of a sense of self
as both strong and gentle, confident and vulnerable, assertive and receptive, equally able to lead and to follow.
In booklets such
as An Evangelical Look at Homosexuality (1977, revised) and Holier - Than - Thou Hocus - Pocus & Homosexuality (1977), Blair asserts that the Bible does not offer judgment on
loving, monogamous homosexual activity between exclusive homosexuals (those with no
heterosexual propensity).
One thing I
love about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe homosexual relationships have the same value
as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.
Unlike some people I
love, I am not inclined toward homosexuality, but if I were I would hate it
as much
as I do my gluttony or my inappropriate
heterosexual lusts or arrogance etc..
Does the
heterosexual couple uniting in marriage today lift up the union
as characterized by
love, fidelity, intimacy and forgiveness.
Yet
heterosexual love has its peril,
as Updike knows all too well.
My personal conviction has been for years that homosexuals are
as human and
as much valuable
as heterosexuals, that God
loves us all equally, gay or straight, and that homosexuality and Christianity are not mutually exclusive.
As it turns out, the Pink Power Ranger - loving cousin, now a young man, came out as gay at some point, but my son, also a young man, by all appearances seems to be 100 percent heterosexual (you can ask his girlfriend about that
As it turns out, the Pink Power Ranger -
loving cousin, now a young man, came out
as gay at some point, but my son, also a young man, by all appearances seems to be 100 percent heterosexual (you can ask his girlfriend about that
as gay at some point, but my son, also a young man, by all appearances seems to be 100 percent
heterosexual (you can ask his girlfriend about that).
I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study
as proof that children raised by
loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a
heterosexual household.»
Fisher's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record the brain activity of 15 university - aged
heterosexual men and women who had recently been jilted by long - term partners, and who described themselves
as still being «absolutely and very intensely in
love.»
SF CHRONICLE — Feb 14 — After eHarmony said its psychological research is based exclusively on
heterosexual relationships, a growing number of rival online matchmakers are using their algorithms to find same - sex
love as well.
See, gay couples, lesbian couples and such may not seem to have fallen in
love for the purposes of procreation but they are the outliers,
as the standard
heterosexual relationship is triggered by chemical reactions in the brain.
As a femme, she was frequently questioned on how lesbian she was — by
heterosexual couples looking to spice up their
love life with another woman and even other homosexuals who thought she didn't look lesbian enough.
Far from taking advantage of others (although,
as with all dating sites, that does inevitably happen) sugar babies can be honest about exactly what they want,
as society starts to come round to the idea that traditional
heterosexual monogamy is not the only way to do
love.
Instead, it is the most sumptuous, classical star cross'd lovers romance — a «Juliet and Juliet» story — in which the central
love affair is presented just
as legitimately
as those that dotted the Hollywood films of the Golden Era (films whose narratives French film theorist Raymond Bellour memorably likened to machines designed to produce
heterosexual couples).
While
Love was outlined
as a bond based on the adoration of people, animals and all of nature, whtehr
heterosexual, homosexual, transsexual or non-sexual, Lust delved into the primal, sometimes shocking, borderline - pornographic nature of contemporary sex culture.
Most trained sex therapists have used it
as the «bible» on male sexuality (for
heterosexual males in a committed
love relationship).
We believe that attachment theory and the science of
love applies to GLBT people and relationships
as well
as heterosexual persons and relationships.