Sentences with phrase «even same sex»

Even same sex couples with children should enshrine the life giving relationship between a man and a woman because they remain dependent on this relationship for their children.
-- which even a same sex married couple would engage in.

Not exact matches

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.
In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.
(Even though, ironically, they may now marry in many of the same states, thanks to a Supreme Court decision from 2012 allowing same sex marriage on a federal level.)
That includes spouses, same - sex domestic partners, kids (under a certain age), and even parents.
(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).
Sex without live is primal and feels dirty (my experience) but where love is it is perfect even when it is between two of the same gender.
Within ten years, I expect — maybe even within five — one New England state or another will strip the power to issue civil - marriage licenses from clergy of churches that do not perform same - sex marriages.
When a Christian organization appears to endorse same - sex unions, even in ways that avoid formal cooperation, the world views it as proclaiming, at least tacitly, that it does not believe that marriage is between man and woman or that sex is reserved for marriage.
As a matter of prudence, prioritizing the wrongness of same - sex marriage over divorce or contraception (or even masturbation) only serves to reinforce the claim that Christians are motivated by some kind of anti-gay animus when they defend traditional marriage laws.
President Barack Obama has come out in personal support of same - sex marriage, has encouraged states to recognize the rights of same - sex couples to marry and even led the movement to abolish Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he has kept mum on whether or not he believes the Constitution gives gay people the right to marry.
The majority of former homosexuals are single, even those who have been out of same - sex immorality for many years.
Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual love even though he spoke of having experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14 years).
«We just have no evidence what so ever in slippage of support for Obama, even after his announcement in support of same sex marriage.»
Most mainline denominations have come out against the amendments even though some of them do not allow same - sex couples to wed in their churches.
Debate about contraception, abortion, same - sex marriage, even Satan, has attracted just as much attention on the presidential campaign trail in recent weeks.
Homosexual behaviors, and same - sex marriage may be a «sin», it may be «evil», it may be «unjust» [by man's definition or even by God's definition]... but, without tangible victims beyond any reasonable doubt, I must therefore default to the teachings of Jesus, and ensure that their marriage receives all the Federal, State, and local «blessings» that every marriage receives.
In the wake of the Supreme Court basically saying that two people can get married if they love each other, even if they are of the same sex, a Montana man and his two wives have requested to get legally married.
The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
Last summer, even before the Supreme Court decision legitimizing same - sex marriage, conservative Christians were already anxious about the consequences for religious freedom.
Even though the Court did not rule that same - sex marriage must be legal in all states, it set the stage for that to happen.
Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.
Perhaps he might; it seems to me that baking a cake for a same - sex wedding, even if one does not agree with the concept, may well come under the heading of walking along a road for two miles with someone who «presses you into service» for one.
Even when Packer walked away from the Diocese of New Westminster in 2002 at his bishop's behest (over disagreements relating to the blessing of same - sex unions), he did not attempt to embody an Anglican «ideal» in a free - church or nondenominational context (much to the disappointment of some of his Reformed friends).
3) You admit that even in Paul's day same sex acts were considered unnatural.
The government need not care if these religious unions are restricted to opposite sex couples, or same race couples, or even if they allow people to join their mail box, or other inanimate objects, in holy matrimony.
and i don'think public opinion is any closer to decriminalization of exhibitionism, or even prostitution the majority of the public still thinks breast feeding is erotic Same sex marriage rights, have nothing to do with erotic liberties.
Your idea that everyone was considered heterosexual only further explains that any same sex acts were so deplorable that they would not even acknowledge it.
In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.
Yet in Marriage: A History, Coontz identifies promoting good marriages as a worthy goal, even though she opposes social policy that would enforce this goal and exclude same - sex couples.
More than a few «conservatives» have endorsed same - sex marriage, and even invoked conservative principles in doing so.
That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.
In the season finale, the justices delivered split opinions in two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth mother.
Because the young are more liberal on social issues» at least at this point in their lives» traditionalists are being counseled by secularists to either remain silent about abortion and same - sex marriage, or even change their beliefs.
Those of us who hold these views on homosexuality and same - sex marriage are certainly accustomed to having our beliefs challenged, even vehemently, and often in our own families.
The same goes for the beauty of creation, the joy of good music, the physical sensation of touch, and even the pleasure of sex.
Gabe, same - sex marriage isn't even close to the topic of the post.
You admit that even in Paul's day same sex acts were considered unnatural.»
But when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against same - sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?
«On the two issues that have prompted some pulpit thundering, same - sex marriage and abortion, Catholics are right in line, or even a little ahead, of their non-Catholic neighbors,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Even so, Paul's view toward the same - sex aspect of those rites didn't seem very positive at all, and he did call the sex acts (as the NIV put it) «shameful» and «unnatural.»
We thought of it as a marriage between a man and woman as God intended, accomplished through his grace even in the midst of my «same - sex» attraction.
There is no way you can even twist scripture into saying that a covenant between two people of the same - sex that has nothing to do with sex could be wrong.
Perhaps he would have condemned the gay sex even if it weren't in the context of idolatry... Then again, Paul also calls it «shameful» and «unnatural» — using the same Greek words — for a man to have long hair (1 Corinthians 11:14).
S&G were not destroyed (even in the biblical myth) due to loving, same - sex relationships.
Despite the emotional appeal of two people of the same sex who love each other in a way that imitates a married couple, their union can not effect the true purposes of marriage and family, and this can be demonstrated abstractly with reason and concretely through nature, even to non-believers.
When you say, ``... you find it difficult to reconcile this with people who accept or even celebrate that sin,» you imply that same - sex love is sinful.
It is commonly accepted that a person will continue to experience desire and even occasionally lapse into same - sex behavior as part of the overall conversion process.
Even this is probably an overestimate, since there is no reason to suppose that all of those in the don't know / won't say column are same - sex attracted.
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