Sentences with phrase «changing homosexual persons»

While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.

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The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»
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.
For some homosexual persons, the effort to change can mean years of individual and group therapy, agonized prayers, suicidal depressions, and the constant fear of detection, loss of job and attack by straight men.
God's morality does not change, and as a church and a people we often have a lot of bigotry toward the increasing numbers of homosexuals in our midst — however!
To homosexual people reading this who are hurting: please be assured that not all Christians condemn you, hate you or want to change you.
Flat out, I want as many homosexuals, drug addicts, divorcees, and alcoholics as possible darkening the doors of Brand New Church, because those people want and need change.
The smell like someone jamming two large needles a good deal up into your nasal cavity and then taking them out and then jamming them back in the diaper had to be changed though so I learned along with the wonder and amazement of responsibility in the life of a little universe just learning about how wonderful and talented it is and all it had to do was be born and stuff just worked unless the cuts came but I did let that happen not when homosexuals could get married and marijuana was legal now to remove the guns and evangelicals and live in peace with the other people.
If the homosexual can change his or her sexual orientation, such a person should seek to change.
«I'd have to say the most dramatic change that's taken place is our view about sexual identity,» he said, «In the 1980s the defence of people who were homosexual was based entirely on the rights to privacy.
Even though most LGBTQ people live successful, happy lives, some homosexual or bisexual people may seek to change their sexual orientation through therapy, often coerced by family members or religious groups to try and do so.
Sexual fluidity can occur in people who are definitively heterosexual or homosexual but simply experience change in their sexual response.
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