Sentences with phrase «heterosexual life»

The sculpture has been read as a wry dig at the machismo of de Kooning and his fellow Abstract Expressionists; a step away from «living an aggressively heterosexual life and getting drunk both in and out of the Cedar Street Tavern», as art historian Fred Orton has written.

How do the fundamental principles of Christian theology illuminate the question or complex of homosexual / heterosexual life styles?

Now, as even this brief and arbitrary list of questions should indicate, any illumination of the peculiar temptations of a homosexual life style may also serve to illuminate the peculiar temptations of a heterosexual life style and the commonality of temptation for both.

Any argument for heterosexuality as a preferred sexual choice does not rest on how this or that heterosexual life works out.

That is the price one pays for heterosexual life choice.

I suspect that there are deep values that can emerge in certain homosexual lives which are unique to that life and which can not be replicated in content or depth in heterosexual life.

Not exact matches

It only makes it all the more urgent for young people to be told the truth that sexual promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, may endanger their lives, that condoms are by no means a foolproof way to avoid that risk, and that chastity is the best defense.

On the one hand, Virtually Normal presents a very sanitized picture of male homosexual life; there are no details of the gay subculture to repel heterosexual readers and make them less amenable to Sullivan's political proposals.

Because homosexuals «have no choice but to be homosexual,» he declares, «they are not choosing that option over heterosexual marriage; and so they are not sending any social signals that heterosexual family life should be denigrated.»

Sure, you can be a heterosexual and a bigot, or a heterosexual and a life and joy giving fellow.

Of course it is the case that there are many priests, whose orientation is homosexual rather than heterosexual, who live chaste and holy lives.

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

When I see a heterosexual couple together just being a couple, my mind does not wander to their sex life.

Furthermore there is no rational argument for equating homosexual union, which is anatomically and physiologically dysfunctional and unproductive of new life, with heterosexual union.

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.

(Not many people I know who are heterosexuals make their sexuality and sex life the main topic of discussion, though I have encountered ones who do.)

Do that homosexual or heterosexual and you will find your desires aligning more with His desires day by day and you eventually will not even miss those sins you so loved before Christ came into your life.

In the future, fewer people will marry, more people who marry will divorce, more people who many will do so later in life, more people will cohabit, fewer people will have children, more people who have children will do so outside of marriage and more people will want to form informal unions of various kinds and experiment with reproductive technologies outside of either marriage or heterosexual unions.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

Homosexual relations represented a stage in some young men's lives, after which they would settle down to heterosexual marriage.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

And I am a lesbian — a woman who has come out of the heterosexual box and into another box, which, as boxes go, is far superior for my life as a responsible person, a Christian woman, in this world at this time.

By insisting that Christian homosexuals either become heterosexual or live celibate forever

Any sexual life — heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual — is OK.

Then again, perhaps I am too harsh on the UMC... I assume if the man was a heterosexual and wished to marry a woman, that the church would have made the same requirement — after all, they would live in «adultery by remarriage» according to Jesus [Luke 16:17 - 18].

But it is an equal poverty of spirit to remove oneself from the Church community because it calls one to abandon, for example, a life of serial heterosexual adultery through divorce and remarriage, and then to claim that one is excluded — and that happens too.

The church would have said, «You can marry in another state, and live together, AND so long as you have no sexual consummation in your heterosexual marriage, then we will allow the man to lead the worship songs.»

Just as universities do not require women to share rooms and showers with men in college dormitories, heterosexual personnel should not be forced to interact with homosexuals without recourse to other living arrangements available to most civilians.

I was assured that God would give me strength to lead a righteous life, and had one interesting experience in which (to my surprise) I found myself thinking heterosexual thoughts.

In fact, Farrow's list of fundamental truths points eloquently to the basic ontological foundations for human reproduction and the ethical education of children in society, and from these he reasonably draws a normative social claim: Heterosexual marriage open to the transmission of life is the morally normative context of human sexuality.

Heterosexuals would claim that it is unfair to differentiate between being a heterosexual and living like one.

For my friends and acquaintances that are GLBT, the ability to have a legal standing on par with heterosexual couples carries weight in every area of their lives.

I don't believe that God creates us in such a way that one group (heterosexuals) living out a life of committed, covenanted love is participating in sanctification while another group (homosexuals) living out the exact same kind of love is condemned to damnation.

They are not heterosexual — for many this is a plain and simple fact of life.

While there are some people now living in heterosexual marriages who once perceived themselves to be gay, there are millions of gay and lesbian persons who have accepted their sexual orientation as a gift from God and live productive and deeply spiritual lives.

Moreover, absent a miracle, each of us owes our living existence to exactly one man and one woman — no more, no less, no other — and, thus, to one act of heterosexual union.

First, it fails to mention that the Church «refuses to consider the person as a «heterosexual» or a «homosexual» and insists that every person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and, by grace, his child and heir to eternal life» (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, para. 16, 1986).

I used the example of a (heterosexual) couple living together but not (legally) married because it was an example that you raised, fishon, and because it is less controversial that the gay issue we normally discuss.

This negative assertion therefore stands against all attempts to argue for the autonomous or intrinsic legitimacy of any «life style» and against those who condemn homosexuality from the standpoint of an assumed righteousness of heterosexual marital fidelity or those who, condemning the obvious hypocrisies and oppressions ingredient to the institution of marriage, claim the autonomous validity of a homosexual life style.

For example, a person who is masculine biologically and «gendered» as a woman could have heterosexual desires and thus live with another man.

«The only kind of friendship the state has a proper interest in recognising and regulating is heterosexual marriage, because that's what leads to children - new citizens - and gives them the best start in life.»

This is equally true for heterosexual couples, many of whom choose to live together without marrying.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

A small amount, about 10 percent, however, see living together as an alternative to marriage, and a recent study by sociologist Alison Hatch, «Saying I Don't to Matrimony: An Investigation of Heterosexual Couples Who Resist Marriage,» is a revealing look at why couples prefer cohabitation over marriage.

Andrew Cuomo, himself, lives in an openly heterosexual sexual relationship with his paramour, Sandra Lee, in the presence of his daughters apparently not caring what effect that living arrangement also has on his minor daughters.

A 2012 study by Tony Antoniou, a pharmacist and research scholar in the Department of Family Medicine at St. Michael's found that many heterosexual men feel existing HIV - related programs and services don't meet their needs and are geared primarily or exclusively toward gay men and heterosexual women who are living with the virus.

The study also examined whether the quality and / or quantity of close friendships are more strongly linked to overall life satisfaction for GLB groups than for heterosexuals.

Young gay men, however, had more female friends than young heterosexual men in terms of the number of female friends they can talk about their sex life with and who they can count on to celebrate their birthday with.

Anti-HIV medications suppress the viral load of people living with HIV and provide durable protection against heterosexual transmission according to the groundbreaking study led by Myron Cohen, MD..

I'm a white, able - bodied, heterosexual, educated, employed, English - speaking, fully - cognitive, physically and emotionally healthy Canadian of child - bearing age living in a safe neighborhood.