Sentences with phrase «describing homosexual persons»

In contemporary culture, «gay» is the most common word for describing homosexual persons.

Not exact matches

This passage also says these people gave up heterosexual passions for homosexual passions... again... doesn't accurately describe gay folk today.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

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.

«Sodomite» and «sodomy» are terms used to describe gay people for troglodytes who derive their «knowledge» from the bible, and if you want to define homosexuals as being sodomites you are clearly using your religion to enact your opinion.

This is a term that was invented to describe people with a pathological fear of homosexuals — the kind of people who engage in acts of violence against gays.