Sentences with phrase «for gay children»
I feel badly for children whose parents try to strong - arm them into roles they can't fill — that goes for gay children whose parents try to force them to be straight, academic kids whose parents wish they were athletes and so on.
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So many American churches have made it brutally hard for their gay children to learn these truths.
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In 1999, Reverend Jerry Falwell accused the character Tinky Winky of being «a gay role model» for children because he carried a handbag and had triangular antenna, which he suggested represented the gay pride symbol.
Since the late 1950s, there has a been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights.»
Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»
B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth agrees that school district policies that specifically deal with sexual orientation and gender identity are an important component of helping gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth feel safe in their schools.
I think that our children's children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous gay men... but the result of religious and social persecution of gay people that pushed them into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their sexuality.
A gay man or woman's love for their partner is nothing like the rape of a child... it's disgusting that you would even insinuate that... you have believed a lie.
As Sullivan puts it, there is «more likely to be a greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom.»
Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of gay marriage would be an «unqualified social good» for homosexuals in providing role models for children coming to terms with their sexuality.
Of course, for many who are close to the issue, it is about a loved one, often a child, who is gay.
(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.
On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterose xual parents... mama k
For example, gay marriage should be legal unless someone can provide proof of why it shouldn't be, but a man marrying a child should be illegal because we have facts backing that up.
Study's have shown that gay couples make excellent parents and I'm sure the study's would show the same for polygamist family's as well (as long as they are not forcing underage children to participate).
New technologies will soon find a way for gay and lesbian couples to have children ¯ and to have their own children.
Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.
He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.
David Thorstad, a spokesman for the h0m0s rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: «The ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of s freedom for all — not just equal rights for «lesbians and gay men, but also freedom of s expression for young people and children.»
It is not fair, for example, to compel a child being raised by a gay couple to attend a school in which the teachers say homosexual practice is sin.
I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.
The same will come for Gay and Lesbian Americans who go to work, pay their taxes, raise and / or adopt children and make great parents, by the way, and Vote!
Our entire society groans while we wait for just and compassionate laws that will respond to the need: according to recent American Bar Association statistics, the U.S. is home to between 6 and 10 million children of gay, lesbian or bisexual parents.
Most wars are religions that fight one another... Pray for Peace??? what the hell kind of church can say that and then say kill gays??? Let us remember there are those in the religious order who molest your children and hide under the sheets so nobody can find them..
[12] This link has been encouraged by some groups as one which should be made with school children, for example see www.schools-out.org.uk/teachingpack/awholeschoolissue.htm which encourages schools to have «inclusions of oppression of gays and lesbians when looking at the Holocaust in history.»
In response, we believe in building strong marriages with our spouses and children as we start our own families, but wonder what this has to do with fighting against equal protection for gay couples.
Just like the Christians who have no remorse for blocking the civil rights of gay people that brings harm to their families, especially during emergencies when they are denied being with their loved ones during death in a hospital and protection for their children.
if a gays live together, they should both work and even if one chooses not to work in order to take care of their adopted child, they SHOULD NOT be eligible for the tax benefits?
On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterosexual parents.
it's way more dangerous for many reasons.Why must this whole «gay issue» be themain concern in America when in Africa a child is dying of starvation??
The day a gay or lesbian couple knocks on the pastor's door to request that their child be baptized is not the time for the congregation to struggle with how it will respond to this request.
Doomsdayers aren't hurting Christianity, Mr Jeffres, as much as people like you are; you stole books from the Wichita Falls public library because they were trying to teach the children of gay people that their parents might be normal, loving human beings, and you accompanied it with a media campaign that raised $ 1 million that same year for your church through bigoted, close - minded sermons.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Some Christians have tolerated violence against gays, women and children, minorities, etc., for a very long time.
And redefining marriage to include gay and lesbian couples will undermine a basic rule for children's well - being: «a mother and a father for every child.»
We don't need more children, which these benefits were designed to encourage, and we certainly don't need to waste our money on gays (they are already costing us plenty for the HIV / AIDS treatments!).
And I would really like for you to demonstrate how the «natural sciences» leads to the conclusion that children become objects and lose their own rights, or how gay sex implies dominance / submission and hetero sex does not.
As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?
(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.
Before you go saying that being gay is a crime, you should start stopping people from bringing gay children in to the world Ignorance is bliss... read something other than the buybull for true enlightenment!
Let's imagine for a second how many gay children might be in that congregation growing up hearing that kind of nonsense with no idea that mainstream medicine, science and psychology say the exact opposite.
But please, for the love, don't leave a child and a community that was depending on you in a bind so you can make a point about gay marriage.
Judgement is not warranted here for we all have had some form of responsibility of this being gay, or any other abnormalities taught to our children in our society, all being accepted, calling it «good» within the media, and of our lifestyles, one way or another.
A gay situation is not a place for these troubled children.
We can only hoping one of those children turns out to be gay... then you can look in the mirror, knowing you created that gay child and knowing that they will have a great dislike for you due to your bigotry.
God created Gays for a reason, curb the world's over population, find loving parents for children abandoned by straights, we need to have faith in God's plan.
There is no medical need to protect the purity of the species, because for a gay or lesbian couple to have children, they have to work hard, and seek outside help.
I am one of those people responsible for producing a gay child.
«For those amonst ye who do bad things to my gentle gay children will reap the harm that ye have sown.»
It was God that started marriage so that there would be support for having children and a mother and father so civil unions accomplish the same thing for gays.