It is easy to become frustrated with contemporary
debates about homosexuality.
We would refer to our well - received editorial of November 2003, «
The Debate about Homosexuality», for our own attempt to present theses issues truthfully and with sensitivity.
Not exact matches
This verse clearly refers to the practice of
homosexuality, but it seems to be talking
about those who then become murderers and so on («Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,...») and so on.
At that point, it was
about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to
homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the
debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»
Everything flows from the opening sentence of the book, an expansion of a 2010 article from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: «What we have come to call the gay marriage
debate is not directly
about homosexuality, but
about marriage.»
Perhaps, therefore, the gay marriage
debate isn't just
about marriage, but must also deal with
homosexuality after all.
Aside from the theological
debate about what the Bible has to say on
homosexuality, there are a number of legal considerations for churches.
In recent heated
debated with my dad
about homosexuality, membership and whatnot, this is just SO relevant.
What the generation before them took for granted
about divorce, or mixed marriages, or birth control, or segregation, or
homosexuality they begin to
debate and discard.
I've read a lot of the more controversial postings recently (such as the recent ones on Hell and
Homosexuality as well as some older ones
about the definition of the gospel) where it seems that the
debates in the comment section always fail (at least for me) to help those who are trying to learn.
But, upon thinking
about it, I decided that nothing is more appropriate than interrupting our comments
about the
debate over
homosexuality with ten - word reminders of the hope of the gospel, which gives every conversation new depth and meaning.
Every year there is a
debate in our office
about whether a Pink List remains relevant − given that
homosexuality is widely accepted in most parts of society, although prejudice still pervades in some sections.
No matter what you think
about homosexuality itself, Amazon made a decision to remove books that had certain indicators — and as a result, they've made it that much harder for people to find these contributions to a very important
debate.