Sentences with phrase «helping homosexual people»

A heterosexual person can not help a homosexual person to develop her or his full personhood, whatever that may mean, if the heterosexual equates homosexuality with sickness or immorality.

Not exact matches

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

Many people will find it increasingly difficult to explain» and some courts will undoubtedly share the difficulty» why homosexual adults should not seek out adolescents and teenagers to help them «feel comfortable» with their homosexual desires.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

Married people and parents, almost all of them by now survivors of the sexual revolution, weren't asking for the task force's kind of help, and homosexuals will not be assisted by the church's lying about Scripture.

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

Thinking perhaps of how they once condemned alcoholics instead of trying to accept and help them, they have become open to discussions and not infrequently have invited homosexual persons to speak.

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.

In part this emphasis stems from Nussbaum's repeated claim that we need literature to help us «concern ourselves with the good of other people whose lives are distant from our own,» and the experiences of the Guardians are likely to be quite «distant» from the poor, from racial and ethnic minorities, and from homosexuals.

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.»

All of these people now have a place where they can meet, Gay Partners network is a dating and relationship network helping men of the homosexual variety get together and form their bonds.

Couples therapy can help people in an intimate relationship, regardless of whether they're heterosexual or homosexual, married or not.