And times have changed, including
attitudes toward homosexuality.
August 22, 2014 • As
attitudes toward homosexuality shift in the U.S., many gay men say that's created not just more legal freedoms but also greater freedom to express their gender identities.
During the transition period that will precede certification, the military plans to require service members to attend mandatory training sessions intended to change
their attitudes toward homosexuality.
changing
attitudes toward homosexuality have created a new victim: closeted Christians who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality but will not say so publicly for fear of being labeled a hateful bigot «In the current culture, it takes more courage for someone like Chris Broussard to speak out than for someone like Jason Collins to come out,» says Sprigg, a former pastor.
Because of traditional Christian
attitudes toward homosexuality as inherently sinful, there has been little help for the LGBT movement from the black community.
This will tend to make him, or her, hostile to societies traditionally organized to favor heterosexuality and the family, and persuade him to advocate policies that seek not tolerance but the transformation of popular or traditional
attitudes toward homosexuality.
Here and elsewhere Boswell contends that today's negative
attitudes toward homosexuality were not there in the Christian beginnings or in the first millennia.
But Sprigg and other evangelicals say changing
attitudes toward homosexuality have created a new victim: closeted Christians who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality but will not say so publicly for fear of being labeled a hateful bigot.
But this conclusion does not solve the hermeneutical problem of
our attitude toward homosexuality today.
Not exact matches
At the most negative pole for Nelson are those holding to a «rejecting - punitive» approach - one which «unconditionally rejects
homosexuality as legitimate and bears a punitive
attitude toward homosexual persons.»
This means that, so far as we know, Jesus never spoke about
homosexuality, and we simply have no way of determining what his
attitude toward it might have been.
It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative
attitudes that society holds
toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that
homosexuality suggests to many people.
Do his less progressive
attitudes toward social issues like
homosexuality and feminism make him simply a gentler vessel for the same old hard line?