Sentences with phrase «celibate way»

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By the way there is far more of this behavior occuring by married men than by celibate priests in society.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

Those who know from within what marriage may demand are often unimpressed with the claim of the celibate that his way of life is renunciation for the service of the higher good, even when it is conceded to be innocent altogether of any unconscious homosexuality.

On the contrary, empirical studies have shown that the vast majority of gay people who have attempted a celibate lifestyle end up acting out their sexual needs in promiscuous and self - destructive ways.

I do kinda take issue though with straight people who think gay people should be celibate (or I suppose someone who thinks their choice for celibacy is the only way for everyone — but at least they actually know what they are asking of people).

However, to say that some people are born gay, with orientation rarely, if ever, being altered, and that these people are not often suited to celibacy the way some are called, and yet they are forced to liev celibate lives has deep theological implications.

One way of getting at the point is by considering the celibate man or woman whose specific vocation is not to act genitally but to redirect the sexual drive, desire, and equipment for other ends that are taken as good for that particular person.

In addition to listening to constructive criticism of the way that «celibate gay Christian» is open to misunderstanding, we also need to look critically at the way that the language that has been used by Courage / Exodus / NARTH is also open to misunderstanding and has been used in misleading ways.

We are not commanded to celibate and we shared the same civil rights as the straights but unfortunately not in the way that we want to but what the law and the norms dictate.

This is all about the bishops (a bunch of celibate old men - «celibate» if you don't count involvements with altar boys) trying to force other people's health decisions, and then blowing the thing way out of proportion.

I am puzzled as to why Arman Partamian concludes that I blame all the problems of the postmodern world on the decline of celibate vocations in the Catholic Church, when, at various points in my essay, I describe the influence as running the other way.

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