Sentences with phrase «gay children grow»

It will spotlight Navratilova's social and political activism for women and the LGBT community, told through Greenwald's personal lens — a gay child growing up in the Reagan - era Florida.

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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.»

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

Well with having 7 children so - far, chances are at least one will grow up and let his father know he is gay..

From all the research I've seen, children of gay couples develop and grow up to be just as normal as those of straights.

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 Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

And my children (now grown with children of their own), also understand that gays are born that way and if we were in your religion we would have to believe that they are the product of God's work.

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.

Not only would ectogenesis — the process of growing a fetus outside a human body in an artificial womb — save women and babies from those dangers, but just as assisted reproductive means have allowed the rise in fatherless births and mothers by choice, it would also make it much easier for men — gay, trans, hetero, whatever — to have children without needing a surrogate.

In gay or lesbian families, you can talk about a man or woman who gave a seed or egg to help your child grow.

The brief contained children's testimonies that discussed what it was like to grow up with gay and lesbian parents and how the same - sex marriage ban has affected their lives.

Her: Well, you don't want him to grow up to be a child molester, or gay, or be in therapy for all of his adult life.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the nation's leading pediatric authority with 57,000 members, says that children who grow up with gay and / or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children with straight parents.

«Growing up gay came with many secrets... so we knew we didn't want to put that burden on our child.

No studies have found risks to or disadvantages for children growing up in families with one or more gay parents, compared to children growing up with heterosexual parents (Perrin, 2002).

The brief includes testimony from some of these children, who talk about growing up with gay and lesbian parents and how the same - sex marriage ban affects them.

This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.

if gay marriage is approve then the gay population are going to grow, because is simply going to teach our young children that is ok to live like this.

Whether or not a gay gene, a set of gay genes, or some other biological mechanism is ever found, one thing is clear: The environment a child grows up in has nothing to do with what makes most gay men gay.

Dr. Perrin noted that despite these barriers, there is a growing number of children whose parents are gay, reflecting a rapidly changing legal and social climate for prospective gay and lesbian parents.

Whether he has children from a prior heterosexual relationship, has gone through foster care or private adoption or has fathered a child with a female friend or surrogate, a growing segment of the gay dating market is gay dads.

The Grand Jury Prizes went to Desiree Akhavan's gay conversion therapy drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post (U.S. Dramatic), Derek Doneen's harrowing child slave rescue documentary Kailash (U.S. Documentary), Tolga Karaçelik's family - centric drama Butterflies (World Cinema Dramatic), and Talal Derki's two - year portrait of the pressures facing children growing up in a radical Islamist family, titled Of Fathers and Sons (World Cinema Documentary).

With the growing numbers of gay fathers in our society, research suggests that they are likely to divide the work involved in child care relatively evenly and that they are happy with their couple relationships, and that gay men make perfectly fit parents.

As I have mentioned on Science of Relationships before, the idea that absentee fathers or dominant mothers are responsible for turning their children gay is simply not true and there is growing evidence in favor of a biological basis for homosexuality (see here).

Fact: «A growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay and / or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

While this domain will continue to include divorce and child custody / visitation mediation, mediation of pre-nuptial agreements, dependency mediation, parent - child mediation, mediation of gay and lesbian couple disputes, of elder care, of family wills and estates, of family business, adoptions, post-divorce and stepfamily disputes, the field, without doubt, will continue to grow even beyond these already diverse areas.

«Growing up gay came with many secrets... so we knew we didn't want to put that burden on our child.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the nation's leading pediatric authority with 57,000 members, says that children who grow up with gay and / or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children with straight parents.