Sentences with phrase «for homosexual acts»

Although the facts in Sadeghi - Pari, above differ from the case at bar as the Applicant in the said case had effectively been apprehended for homosexual acts, it remains that the RPD should have discussed why the Applicant does not face such a risk.

For example, in Italy, in a September 2012 Sentenza [26](TT v Minister of the Interior), the Italian Supreme Court held that «[t] he penalty for homosexual acts, as provided by art. 319 of the Senegalese Penal Code, constitutes per se a general condition of deprivation of the fundamental right to live one's sexual and affective life freely».

When the narrative eventually folds back on this pronouncement, it transpires that he is speaking to the by - the - book Manchester police detective Nock (Rory Kinnear), whose investigation of a burglary at Turing's home has led to the mathematician being charged with «gross indecency,» a euphemism for homosexual acts that were punishable by imprisonment until the relevant 1885 law was repealed in 1967.

The legislation, signed into law on 24 February by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, mandates prison terms of up to 14 years for homosexual acts and life imprisonment for «aggravated homosexuality,» such as sexual acts with a minor.

Some 85 countries still criminalize sexual activity between adults, and eight, including Nigeria and several Islamic countries, impose the death penalty for homosexual acts.

As I walked away, I realised that the rally had been a protest in favour of gay rights and later, that Wednesday 23rd February 1994 was the day the government lowered the age of consent for homosexual acts from 21 to 18.

The person is not to blame for his or her orientation but is to blame for homosexual acts.

Moreover, the radical separation of the procreative and unitive aspects of intercourse, and its widespread acceptance in the community has provided, in turn, the moral justification for masturbation and for homosexual acts, including sodomy.

In the first report by Alfred C. Kinsey and his colleagues on male sexual behavior in the U.S., one of the items that provided maximum shock value was the «cumulative incidence» figure of 37 per cent for homosexual acts.

John, I believe I don't have to presuppose to look for homosexual acts.

Not exact matches

«If my son or daughter, having reached, say, the age of ten or eleven, is lured into a school sex club, is persuaded that he or she must be homosexual, acts accordingly, acquires HIV and then AIDS and remains crippled for life, whom do I sue?»

And for those who don't have any moral objections to homosexual acts, allowing gay and lesbian couples to have biological offspring appears an obvious, even self - evident, good.

The best way to meet Boswell's argument is to grant for a moment that the O.T. prohibitions reflect idolatrous worship practices, that homosexual acts are wrong because they are used liturgically in false worship of false gods and goddesses.

That additional data, derived from the twin sources of Revelation (Tradition and Scripture), is impressive and enriching, and fills in for Christians the full rationale for the teaching against homosexual acts.

The human generative faculties are not built for homosexual types of acts, and such acts cause serious disease.

It's not a question of if homosexual acts are a sin or not, the bible is clear it is, despite modern society looking for every way to dismiss or challenge scripture.

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

As for acting out of personal arrogance, the mistreatment, even abuse, of those on the fringes of society is what I was saying leads me to question the treatment of homosexual people.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

At the same time, there are expressions of sympathy for priests who are acting out their homosexual desires and accounts of gays who claim to have had affairs with priests.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

This is the church's basis for condemning masturbation, contraception, sterilization and homosexual acts.

In the Netherlands, following amendments to the Equal Treatment Act, a company was sued for refusing to make bath towels that advertised an organization which promoted homosexual behavior.

On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.

Therefore, homosexual acts damage «the body's capacity for the marital act as an act of self - giving which constitutes a communion of bodily persons.»

In particular, one could ask the Prime Minister to put in writing his personal guarantee that no Church or individual will be forced to perform «gay marriages»; and that it will not be illegal for Christians to teach the traditional and biblical view that homosexual acts are sinful; and that Christians who refuse to perform «gay «marriages will still be able to be registrars.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

Thibault agrees with the message, and feels that gay people who act on their homosexual urges should not be eligible for all of the sacraments of the Catholic church.

For the same Paul who condemns homosexual acts as sinful is the Paul who tells women like Anita Bryant to remain silent in the church (I Cor.

Hence the spilling of semen for any nonprocreative purpose — in coitus interruptus (Gen. 38:1 - 11), male homosexual acts or male masturbation — was considered tantamount to abortion or murder.

That teaching is that homosexual acts are always contrary to God's plan, and that the desire for such acts is a temptation.

The distinction between persons of a homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they did not choose.

However, I believe that if we seek to understand why Paul saw homosexual acts as radically contrary to God's design for human sexuality, we will come to understand both the Gospel itself — and that design — much more deeply.

By so cavalierly dismissing as unjust the traditional Jewish ban on homosexual acts» a ban undisputed throughout the whole history of Jewish law» he shows that this whole tradition is not normative for him, but only the source of selective guidance or misguidance.

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.

For example, the Catechism's contention that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered» is insensitive and so needs to be scrapped.

«Christians,» they said, «must re-think the usual position that has turned homosexuals into modern day lepers» and «homosexual acts should be judged in each individual instance by whether the participants were expressing genuine love or simply «using» each other for selfish purposes (New York Times 20 November 1967 p. 1).

I hold that the approximately 10 percent of the world population who are homosexual in inclination and whose only satisfying sexual expression is that with someone of their own gender are acting in a fashion which is entirely normal and natural for them.

The church's firm support of civil rights for gay persons ought not depend upon agreement concerning the theological and ethical appropriateness of the homosexual orientation or of specific same - sex acts.

«Among the many errors and ambiguities of this book,» concludes the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, «are its positions on masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions, the indissolubility of marriage and the problem of divorce and remarriage.»

Reports that the South African Parliament has approved gay marriage, and that the U.S. Catholic bishops have reiterated Church teaching on the disordered nature of homosexual acts, once again recall the line about the real reason for the culture wars: «It's the sex, stupid.»

If we are persuaded that there may be a third category of sexual vocation, then the homosexual may further ask: How is my homosexuality to be acted out in such a way as to contribute to God's purposes for me and my fellow human beings?

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

Despite strong pressure for Uganda to respect gay rights from western policy makers, including the UK foreign secretary, William Hague, the bill passed by parliament on 20 December 2013 stipulated life in prison for those found guilty of homosexual acts.

Kaguta said that homosexual acts are unnatural, unafrican and wondered why «somebody would leave something good for something bad»

He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»

Activist Mannan's magazine, Roopbaan, was launched two years ago and has become a platform for promoting the rights of LGBT people in Bangladesh, where homosexual acts are illegal.