Sentences with phrase «for homosexual orientation»

The general reasoning of the Court seems to imply that this requirement could not be set for other categories in similar situations either, such as asylum seekers who fear prosecution for their homosexual orientation, or «westernised» women who fear they will be subjected to persecution of returned to their home country.

Advances in biomedical technology, however, should push the two groups to agree that the biological basis for the homosexual orientation is irrelevant.

Bruni gets the number right; the 1990 landmark study by Bailey and Pillard reported a 52 % «probandwise concordance» for homosexual orientation among genetically identical sibling groups, but this does not mean what Bruni says it means.

Not exact matches

«Regarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine,» said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.

Let us never use the word «homosexual» in reference to a person, for it is a term that has become an epithet in the usage of those who are biased against persons of homosexual orientation.

This becomes thornier yet for those who discern in themselves a «homosexual orientation,» as they adopt an identity distinguished essentially by a set of genital sexual desires that can not morally be fulfilled.

What is wrong, what is unnatural, what is immoral and what is gross is intolerance and discrimination against fellow human beings for their sexual orientation and active pursuit of preventing loving and committed homosexual couples from legally being married.

A homosexual «orientation,» no matter how strongly it is subjectively experienced within our person, does not exist within God's blueprint for humanity.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

The differentiation of homosexual orientation from gender identity (for females as well as males) has been increasingly recognized, and a highly competent summing up is available in Man and Woman: Boy and Girl, by John Money and Anke A. Ehrhardt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).

While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.

Both sides are fighting the battle on the question of whether homosexuals are «wired» for homosexuality, that is, whether there is an intrinsic neurochemical basis for sexual orientation.

While the military does not seek to discriminate unjustly, it believes for a number of sound reasons that persons with a homosexual orientation could experience difficulty in controlling their behavior in light of the unique circumstances of military life.

It can be argued that the deliberate manifestation by word or deed of one's homosexual orientation marks the beginning of behavioral change because the announcement itself is the demand for a social infrastructure to support the behavior.

In any case, practicing homosexuals today more frequently do not consider their orientation a private matter, but are inclined to seek public affirmation for their lifestyle.

Even if it may be shown that some homosexuals have an orientation that they have not chosen, it is fair to state that homosexual behavior is in fact «a choice,» and one that most people do not view as normal conduct either for themselves or their sons and daughters in or out of the military.

I continue to press for a clear distinction between homosexual orientation and same - sex attraction, on the one hand, and being gay, on the other.

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.

When seen as a life orientation, the issue raised for the church is no longer that of the sexual behavior of homosexual Christians.

Here again there is a need for greater balance and the clear recognition that homosexual people should not be reduced to their orientations; nor should the homosexual orientation be reduced to sexual behavior.

While these groups are undoubtedly a valuable support for many people, there have been some questions raised recently from within the group itself about the underlying premise of Courage that a homosexual orientation is a psychological disorder.

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.

During the last three decades, for example, organizations representing 1.5 million U.S. health professionals (doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and educators) have stated definitively that homosexual orientation is as natural as heterosexual orientation; that sexual orientation is determined by a combination of yet unknown pre - and post — natal influences, and that it is dangerous and inappropriate to tell a homosexual that he or she could or should attempt to change his or her sexual orientation.

For more than 25 years, both associations have urged all mental health professionals to help dispel the stigma of mental illness that some people still associate with homosexual orientation.»

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

As an atheist I don't believe in God anyway, but if there was a God he would have to be sadistic kind of monster to create people with a naturally homosexual orientation and then condemn them for it.

While most people indeed have a heterosexual orientation and identify with a single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with male / female, masculine / feminine, heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.

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.

«The current proposals endeavour to equate homosexual partnerships which are in principle non-child bearing with heterosexual partnerships which are in principle procreative and establish a set of rules for state supported sexual relationships that are blind to sexual orientation,» he said in a blog post.

Other biological components of homosexual behaviour have also been found: brain structures that differ with sexual orientation, for example, and robust theories for how genes survive in the population despite rarely being passed on by homosexual people.

Closeted participants supported harsher punishments for homosexuals and more antigay policies than those who were comfortable in their straight orientation.

This group can also be called greedy, because although the physical and heterosexual or homosexual orientation, but also have a similar interest in (for hetero) and different types (for homo).

At a time when people were persecuted for their sexual orientation, Hennessy made works containing narratives of homosexual life that align him with the emerging queer - art movement of the 1970s.

In its decision, one of the judges referred to the claim for equal human rights protection as an effort to seek «the validation of homosexual relations, including sodomy, as a protected and fundamental right... rebutting a millennia of moral teaching» and then shockingly went on to liken the protection of sexual orientation in human rights legislation with the «violently aberrant sexual configurations» of mass murderers Jeffrey Dahmer, Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen.