Sentences with phrase «gay person living»

Think a lesbian or gay person living in a small southern town, for example.

Other churches have confined their official ministries to helping gay people live out celibate lives.

Now, there are plenty of gay people living in small towns who don't see the point in joining an online dating site because they feel they're probably just going to already know all of the guys whose profiles they encounter.

As regards homosexuality, gay people live in the emirates, but do so discreetly, he said.

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When asked about the campaign by a journalist, one of the unnamed activists remarked the «campaign is not meant to harm the gay people who live in the nine cities» [in unprotected states] that are bidding for Amazon's foothold.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

«People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... except at gays.»

There was no scientific research showing that people are either born gay or it develops in the first years of life and no examples of loving, monogamous gay relationships in the public eye.

Gay people should be able to choose whomever they want to make end of life decisions for them.

Genocide, slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, burning of «witches», bombing of abortion clinics, live burials of gay people, etc., etc., all result from fundamentalist thinking.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

What he thought about gay people is irrelevant at best and one can not expect him alone to break the stigma of societal norm of his era (apparently many still live in that era).

Not that I am saying gay people are drug users or gamblers, but those people also feel compelled to gamble or use drugs because the life they have witnessed, does that make it right?

Most people don't seem to care if people are gay — but they would SURELY mind showering with someone they KNEW to be gay or living with them in the same bedroom.

christians today think when people are not living according to the bible then they have the authority to cast hell on whomever... its sickening... and can someone tell me that if a kid was gay and he was a full hearted christian that there preacher would look them in the eyes and say give up ur going to hell

It's fine, Steve, for you to believe «unrepentant gays» (for example, people who choose to live as God created them, in committed same - sex relationships) are going to hell.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

«I love my church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher said.

every man is Jesus if is human a humanitarian who give they life the soldier the real citizen other are person and people we all are a family GOD is the woman we all had a mother think Obama mama is all our mama this nation brain wash because greed and ignorance everyday in deception and manipulation is world order that is why 9/11 call the police the CIA explain all in movie in deception the rich few know all is in the moral, respect and honor the president is correct all in the education but ignorance is bless because we all have greed, they want dome is shipper that is why gay a lot in this nation ignorance..

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

and i know 10 people within a mile of the location, and i have 3 places to crash plus craigslist for a permanent place to live, and i'd be in 3 bands and 10 movies the second i set foot in nyc (i have a bunch of art - phag friends, i was six hours from being «gay nazi # 6» on some horror movie last time, that's the low caliber of fun, art for arts sake).

It also found believers were almost evenly split on whether gay relationships are sinful or not, with 49.6 % believing «people in same - sex relationships should be fully embraced and encouraged» and 50.4 % saying «being in a same - sex relationship should bring with it some bar or sanction to full participation in church life.»

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

The document firmly rejects gay marriage, for instance, but also said Catholics leaders, «are trying to find a balance between the Church's teaching on the family and a respectful, non-judgmental attitude towards people living in such unions.»

The website «Love One Another: A Discussion on Same - Sex Attraction» www.mormonsandgays.org, outlines the church's position on «same - sex attraction» and provides readers with a host of videos from «church members who are attracted to people of the same sex, and conversations with the loved ones of gay spouses, children, or grandchildren who are dealing with the effects of same - sex attraction in their own lives.»

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

David, I really appreciate this post, particularly that you highlight that not only gay people are those who feel like the church puts them into a bind of not living into who they fully are or are pushed to the perimeter if they live with the integrity that says sometimes the Christian life is brutally hard and life in general can be messy.

To deny same gender life - partnerships these rights because some people find the thought of gay marriage icky or offensive is discrimination, pure and simple.

Second — I can assure you that what you are doing to gay people is not loving, because it has horrible consequences in the lives of gay people.

They would rather be under a party and president that promotes hate than to se gay people happy because they can get married... GET A LIFE....

Gay people can choose how we live, however, and the majority of us make all of the same lifestyle choices that everyone else does, including the religioun we might select, the value we place on family, our work, or hobbies, and our political beliefs.

That we must disbelieve scientific evidence, that certain people, such as Gays, are condemned, or that your whole life must change, and your whole view of the world must change.

Although I am a long - time ally, it was another step in really seeing that the issues surrounding gay marriage and equality affect the day to day lives of many people.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

I told you that the BiBLE SAYS BEEN GAY IS A SIN!!!! IF YOU READ IT THEN YOU KNOW THAT ALL PEOPLE WHO LIVE LIKE THIS WILL BURDED FOREVER THINK YOU @msaprilr!!!!

Being gay is a sin that folks need to repent, ask Jesus for forgiveness, ask Him that they can get closer to Him, then of course, sin no more (this usually happens when the person decides on abstinence as their choice in life).

I always like to ask the question: how would two gay people getting married impact one's life at all?

Some of these Web sites even included testimonies from people who had lived gay lives in the past but said they had overcome their homosexuality through Jesus, gotten married, and started families.

We have learned that when we focus on the harms caused by religious hostility toward gay people — its destructive role in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans and explaining that being gay is not a lifestyle choice but is how you are born — persons of faith can understand why religion must no longer be misused to justify hostile attitudes and actions toward LGBT people.

I have nothing against gay people, I just don't agree with their live style (just like I don't agree with alcoholism, adultery, etc).

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

And they certainly don't say anything about a specific person who shares one characteristic of a studied group but not others (for example, the life - expectancy of a non-promiscuous, non-drug-using, non-depressed gay person).

As I've made it clear in the past, I support marriage equality and affirm my gay and lesbian friends who want to commit themselves to another person for life.

I should think that two gay people getting married would not affect one's life any more than two hetero people getting married would.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

In view of this, we should observe that it is «unnatural,» para physin, for a person today with a lesbian or gay sexual orientation to attempt living a heterosexual lifestyle.

This is moving further away from the teaching of Jesus than widening marriage to include gay people and then returning to traditional Christian teaching against living together.

If gays get the tax benefits, why shouldn't other people living together get it?

I've known, lived among, worked with and, occasionally, been close friends with gay and lesbian people for the 50 + years I admit to.

After telling stories of knowing several gay and lesbian congregants during his time as a pastor, he said, «I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do.