Sentences with phrase «heterosexuality in»

The binary view of gender and sexuality that assumes and privileges heterosexuality in individuals, couple and families, and supports traditional masculine and feminine gender roles and expression.

Not exact matches

In her pivotal article on «Compulsory Heterosexuality,» Adrienne Rich highlights the isolation that many women feel as they risk this separation:

In Chapter 9, Matthew makes a strong case that being created in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshiIn Chapter 9, Matthew makes a strong case that being created in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshiin the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshiin the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationship.

My own position is stated best by David Bartlett: «In Christ Jesus, neither heterosexuality nor homosexuality — in themselves — are of any avail, but faith working through love.&raquIn Christ Jesus, neither heterosexuality nor homosexuality — in themselves — are of any avail, but faith working through love.&raquin themselves — are of any avail, but faith working through love.»

And paganism in analogy would be as «bad» as «heterosexuality».

A great number of these mechanisms have been preserved evolutionarily in humans, just as they are for every other behavioral trait we know (including heterosexuality).

But, «pedophilia» is highly dysfunctional, and being gay wasn't, in fact, being gay seemed as much «born that way» as heterosexuality, or being a blonde, or having good spatial acuity.

Taken on its own terms, read in the original languages, placed back into its historical context, the Bible is ho - hum on homosexuality, unless — as with heterosexuality — injustice and abuse are involved.

I also believe, that sometimes people have choice in these matters, including to choose heterosexuality.

On the other hand, in a society that devalues heterosexuality and marriage through a mix of sentimentality and sexual titillation, the choice of homosexuality may be the choice of the different which is revelatory.

Like Michael Hannon, I cautiously appropriate Foucault in my own study, and think him generally correct that «heterosexuality» and «homosexuality» are modern social constructs.

But Genesis 19 no more condemns all homosexuality, than Judges 19 (in which the town of Gibeah rapes a female concubine all night) condemns all heterosexuality.

Her church in Tennessee had told her she was cut off from the church and cut off from God until she repented and «converted» to heterosexuality.

To the extent that sexuality is not fixed, we ought set the «ideal» as heterosexuality, and not ask litttle boys and girls in 1st grade who they will marry when they grow up... a boy or a girl.

Jonathan Ned Katz, a historian of sexuality on the radical left who has previously taught at both Yale and New York University, nicely captures the contemporary queer - theory consensus in The Invention of Heterosexuality, where he explains, «I speak of heterosexuality's historical invention to contest head - on our usual assumption of an eternal heterosexuality, to suggest the unstable, relative, and historical status of an idea and a sexuality we usually assume were carved long ago iHeterosexuality, where he explains, «I speak of heterosexuality's historical invention to contest head - on our usual assumption of an eternal heterosexuality, to suggest the unstable, relative, and historical status of an idea and a sexuality we usually assume were carved long ago iheterosexuality's historical invention to contest head - on our usual assumption of an eternal heterosexuality, to suggest the unstable, relative, and historical status of an idea and a sexuality we usually assume were carved long ago iheterosexuality, to suggest the unstable, relative, and historical status of an idea and a sexuality we usually assume were carved long ago in stone.»

But heterosexuality, in its pretensions to act as the norm for assessing our sexual customs, is marked by something even worse: pride, which St. Thomas Aquinas classifies as the queen of all vices.

In doing so, they were forced also to trade the robust natural law tradition for the recently constructed standard of «psychiatric normality,» with «heterosexuality» serving as the new normal for human sexuality.

And yet, as I have argued throughout, in our own day homosexuality deserves the abominable label, and heterosexuality does too.

As queer theorist Hanne Blank recounts, «This new concept [of heterosexuality], gussied up in a mangled mix of impressive - sounding dead languages, gave old orthodoxies a new and vibrant lease on life by suggesting, in authoritative tones, that science had effectively pronounced them natural, inevitable, and innate.»

Society has recognized this by setting up a pattern of relationship which in our Western culture is predominantly monogamous and finds its chief manifestation in matrimony, although there have been and are other cultures that have taken a different line in their attitude toward heterosexuality.

They have made too much of it in that they have assumed that if it differs from the conventional pattern of heterosexuality it must be wrong, more particularly if it includes approximations to or actual engagement in coition.

This principle is applied by Barth and others in such a way as to place homosexuality in the wrong when contrasted with heterosexuality.

In Genesis, for example, it would seem that God's original intention for humanity was androgyny, not sexual differentiation and heterosexuality.

There's a reason almost 3 million people marched in the Women's march, why LGBT people are worried about the «godly man» mike pence that believes in electrocuting gay youth to «convert them» to heterosexuality.

They argued that the increase in wages would be higher for men who meet the traditional masculine traits that are most valued in the workplace: authority and dominance over others, economic stability, educational and labor market success, and heterosexuality.

New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) suggests that, in rejecting feminism, women are often seeking to position themselves within conventional norms of femininity and heterosexuality.

The Observer newspaper reported on 15 October 2006 that Kelly had joined the Prime Minister in seeking to exempt churches from new equality laws which would require Christian churches to treat homosexuality with equal validity to heterosexuality, which Kelly felt went against Catholic teaching.

Of the 61 who provided data in all six years, 14 of them — 23 percent — reported that they had successfully converted to heterosexuality «in some form or another,» according to Jones.

«Liz in September,» which is in Spanish but subtitled in English... Instead, this short book — which can easily be found for free online — argues that the scientifically defined concept of «heterosexuality» has only been around since the second...

However, as is the case with all things in life, there are those that are opposed to any form of sexuality if it is not heterosexuality.

Debbie gets into trouble in the stroller business; Ian tries out heterosexuality; and Carl finds himself forced into abstinence.

Brian's sexual harassment lawsuit comes to an interesting conclusion thanks to a helping hand from Justin, while Michael and David confront the half - truths in their relationship, and Emmett takes the next painful step in his «rehabilitation» into heterosexuality.

Adam Rippon showing up to the Oscars in a harness heterosexuality really is cancelled pic.twitter.com/2WG 3AJxunj

in some sort of bizarre heterosexuality contest.

As expected, the music is the best part, continuing The Lonely Island's tradition of combining catchy beats with silly lyrics to create songs that rival most stuff on the radio, like the recently released «I'm So Humble» and a Macklemore - inspired track about equal rights in which Conner reaffirms his heterosexuality after every line («I'm not gay!»).

And there's an unrepentant soul who says «I see the light of the Lord in homosexuality,» arguing that man - boy love brings one closer to God than heterosexuality.

In his ongoing quest to uphold his heterosexuality, Tom Cruise continues to litigate.

I desperately wanted to believe in the myth of my heterosexuality, too, and I clung to it as well.

In his memoir Boy Erased, Garrard Conley discusses both his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his parents» attempt to return him to heterosexuality through Love in Action (LIA), which was renamed Restoration Path in 201In his memoir Boy Erased, Garrard Conley discusses both his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his parents» attempt to return him to heterosexuality through Love in Action (LIA), which was renamed Restoration Path in 201in Action (LIA), which was renamed Restoration Path in 201in 2012.

I only mention all of that as a means of establishing that heterosexuality has been and continues to be centered in video games.

Heterosexuality muscles in with a confrontation of organs that shuffle the dominance between male and female to create expectations that on paper, for all their impendence, read more as fervid than dangerous.

In both cases he succeeds in upending the values and norms of whiteness and heterosexualitIn both cases he succeeds in upending the values and norms of whiteness and heterosexualitin upending the values and norms of whiteness and heterosexuality.

The Oregon Equality Act, signed into law in 2007, prohibits any form of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which is defined to mean a person's actual, or even perceived, heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality.

A great deal of time is spent in early childhood and young adulthood conforming to heterosexuality.

In fact, instances of women's same - sex kissing can be seen as reinforcing their heterosexuality — they are not lesbian or bisexual because they closed off to the experience, but instead because they have tried it and decided it was not for them.