Sentences with phrase «church positions on issues»

Specifically, a large percentage of former religious adherents disagree with official church positions on issues pertaining to the LGBT community.

For that matter latest polls demonstrate that even a majority of Catholics disagree with the official church position on this issue, and an even stronger majority oppose the restrictions on birth control.

Not exact matches

Of course the mormon church is as internally inconsistant as any other religious group and has had just about every position on just about every issue over time.

I too am a Catholic who disagrees with his Church's position on contraception (and a whole host of other issues too).

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church» could maintain their princely life - style.

It is not without interest that such dissenters are frequently most enthusiastic about the Church taking official positions on innumerable issues in political dispute.

Instead, they want the church to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox Cchurch to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox CChurch or Eastern Orthodox ChurchChurch.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Steinfels appreciates Carter's «centrist» position on issues such as church and state, homosexuality, and abortion.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

Church assemblies do indeed take positions on many public issues, frequently invoking Scripture as a defense for their viewpoint.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

On this crucial issue Wyschogrod carefully distinguishes between what he believes was the church's original view and what later became its standard position.

Orthodox converts told me that they find comfort in the stability of the church, that positions on issues such as homosexuality and abortion have already been decided and will not change any time soon.

Mr Newcome said the debate was not about the ethics of abortion, pointing out that the Church's position on that issue is clearly stated.

The Church doesn't define the standard on this, given that the Bible takes a clear position on the gay issue.

The second questionable way in which minorities in the once mainline churches try to re-form the churches is by identifying true Christianity with the adoption of what are perceived as radical positions on various contemporary issues of personal and social ethics.

Whereas confessional Lutherans defend the historic Christian position of the church on hot - button issues such as same - sex marriage, the ELCA and its partners have embraced the secular world's positions on these issues.

In a debate with an advocate for abortion, one occasionally comes up against an informed opponent who seeks to undermine the Church's position on the issue by pointing out that the Universal Doctor of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, held to the doctrine of delayed animation or hominisation.

Romney has struggled to win over many social conservatives who felt that his past positions on social issues were too liberal and many evangelicals who raised theological concerns over Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

When I read between the lines of the New Testament, I see, along with the good, a very chaotic community that struggled with the same issues the contemporary church struggles with: ambition, power, position, money, possessions, charismata and worship, order, heresy, dress, the abuse of the sacraments, teaching, and so on.

Even though 50 % of Americans share the Catholic Church's positions on these two issues.

Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an annual event organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund), flaunts an IRS tax code restriction stating that churches risk their tax - exempt status if they endorse specific political candidates or positions on ballot issues.

The enthusiastic advocacy by the Lubavitch Hassidim of menorahs on public property and public funds for yeshivas has shattered the once monolithic «Jewish» position on church - state issues.

«many people are offended and / or frustrated by the very sight of the cross because of the atrocities committed by the church and positions the church takes on certain issues.»

A religious right activist group from Washington placed them in our church's vestibule, outlining the Christian position on issues.

Very few object to denominations speaking out on public issues, and most (80 per cent) agree with most of their own church body's positions in this field.

A month later, Archbishop Justin Rigali issued a statement reiterating the Church's position on such matters, citing several Church sources including Pope John Paul II's 1998 statement calling medically assisted food and water «an ordinary means of preserving life.»

The issue is the LDS Church's position on equal partnership in marriage, not how it decides its leadership.

Jeffrey R. Chadwick, an associate professor of church history and doctrine at BYU, published an article in the latest issue of BYU Studies on Dating the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints has taken no official position on the exact date of Christ's church history and doctrine at BYU, published an article in the latest issue of BYU Studies on Dating the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints has taken no official position on the exact date of Christ's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints has taken no official position on the exact date of Christ's birth.

Verdict: 4 Stars As the world watches to see where the position of leader of the Catholic church is headed and who will be tapped to fill the role, to those on the outside of the issue there may be some confusion about the election of a new Pope and the status of the previous one.

For those of us with no religious beliefs framing your argument in terms of the Catholic church's position on the issue is entirely meaningless.