Sentences with phrase «between homosexual orientation»

This interpretation is mistaken, as the Bible authors knew nothing of the modern distinction between homosexual orientation and practice.

The Roman Catholic church maintains this position, recently describing the homosexual orientation as an «objective disorder».15 In Protestant and Anglican churches, a distinction is now often made between a homosexual orientation and homosexual genital acts; the orientation is part of some people's God - given make - up and not something for which they should be condemned.

Yet, some biblical scholars point out that this passage can only refer to the homosexual acts of heterosexual persons.7 This is because the writers of the Bible did not distinguish between a homosexual orientation and same - gender sexual acts.

I continue to press for a clear distinction between homosexual orientation and same - sex attraction, on the one hand, and being gay, on the other.

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Perhaps the emerging one most widely held is the «dichotomized view» which distinguishes between homosexual acts (sinful) and a homosexual nature (an orientation not the fault of the individual).

Briefly, to Frank Pray, while polls and experiments may report percentage breakdowns between heterosexuals and homosexuals, such studies do not prove that sexual orientation is a natural property.

In the definition of a homosexual, the distinction between the inclination toward (orientation) and the practice of (behavior) homosexuality is essential to keep in mind throughout this paper.

The distinction between persons of a homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they did not choose.

While most people indeed have a heterosexual orientation and identify with a single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with male / female, masculine / feminine, heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.

There is significant evidence in this country and elsewhere to support the idea that there is a link between homosexual culture and paedophile and pederast cultures and that those with homosexual orientations are more prone to seeking sexual partners among children and young persons than heterosexual persons.