Sentences with phrase «homosexual activity»

So far as is known, most of these women, after group sex is left behind, seldom if ever again engage in homosexual activity.

Personal ads for homosexual activity, which was still illegal, were increasing as well — causing authorities to conduct more investigations into the content in newspapers.

They have made themselves especially visible by leading the attack on homosexual activity.

Given this general agreement, scholars do differ as to whether homosexual activity actually played any role in the story at all.

And yet, these crimes required the death penalty, just as did homosexual activity.

For example... right off the bat homosexuality, never mind homosexual activity, is a sin.

But if they reveal that they are gay or they engage in homosexual activity, they will be discharged from the military.

If the only form of homosexual activity of which Paul was aware was promiscuous and lustful, we can agree that what he observed expressed idolatry.

It supplied PIE with a copy of the Dutch Speijer Report, which advocated the abolition of all laws against homosexual activity with minors; this was translated for them by the Sexual Law Reform Society.

Please explain to my ignorant worldview how Romans 1:18 - 32 does not at least speak of homosexual activity as perversion and how 1 Corinthians 6 does not speak against the homosexual act when the Greek Paul used clearly states in his sin list both partners in the homosexual act.

In 1973 the American Bar Association called on state legislatures to repeal all laws which place homosexual activity between consenting adults in private in the category of a crime.

The Dutch Speijer Report, which advocated the abolition of legislation against homosexual activity with minors, was translated into English and provided for the Paedophile Information Exchange by the Albany Trust which was subsidised by the Department of Education and Science.

Father Reese writes on Newsweek «s On Faith blog, «The Catholic hierarchy does not support ecclesial or state - sponsored homosexual marriage and still argues that sex outside of marriage, including homosexual activity, is sinful.»

In fact the term «sodomite» was used to describe homosexual activity for a long time.

Treating homosexual activity as a private matter (and some people now treat group sexual activity this way as well) shapes our society's mores.

«Can we generalize from this passage,» asks Wolterstorff, «and say that Paul is saying that God says homosexual activity is always wrong?

«Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable» (Leviticus 18:22) has been seen as a classic verse clearly prohibiting homosexual activity.

«Voices of the Silenced: Experts, Evidences and Ideologies» features the testimonies of15 people from eight countries who have moved away from homosexual activity.

Whether or not homosexual activity including rape takes place there is anybody's guess since even Julian (Jean Jean) a newcomer considered a pretty - boy and a fish is not «courted» notwithstanding the absence of sex within the walls.

Coming soon, when a user travels to a country included in the ILGA report and launches SCRUFF, he will see an alert informing him of the presence of local laws criminalizing homosexual activity.

Washington — A divided U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a lower - court ruling that struck down a controversial Oklahoma law permitting school boards to fire teachers who publicly advocate homosexual activity.

On one end is the noncompromising «sin perspective» summarized in these words from an article in a conservative periodical: «The New Testament blasts homosexual activity as the lowest, most degraded kind of immorality» (Alliance Witness, July i6, 1975).

«Good versus Evil: it is that simple,» declared a businessman's letter urging Bloomington citizens «to prayerfully make it a matter of immediate personal decision: to shun the sodomites and their supporters, to use every lawful device to eliminate homosexual activity in this area, and to rededicate our community to standards set forth by God.»

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.

At most, there are only three passages in the entire New Testament that refer to what we today would call homosexual activity.

Four bishops have already resigned in scandals involving homosexual activity, and a fifth, my friend James McCarthy, auxiliary bishop of New York, resigned over affairs with women.

Only homosexual activity is disapproved, since «the Church sees these acts as attaining their full significance only in the context of marriage.»

Third, Paul's wording makes it plain that he understands homosexual activity as that indulged in by heterosexuals, hence that which is contrary to their own sexual orientation.

«It was illegal to engage in homosexual activities up until 2003 and doing so would get you thrown in jail»

However, the Cabinet at that time declined to implement the Wolfenden recommendations and it was not until a decade later that the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual activity between consenting adults and set the age of homosexual consent at 21, later reduced to 18.

Male homosexual activity was illegal in the UK until 1967.

In a letter to Obama dated 18 February — but which has just become public — Museveni, Uganda's president, defends the bill, which would introduce life sentences for so - called «aggravated homosexuality» with minors or in cases of rape, and terms of 7 to 14 years for attempted or actual homosexual activity.

The constitutionality of an Oklahoma law that allows schools to dismiss employees for engaging in or advocating certain homosexual activities is being tested in a suit brought last year by a national gay - rights group.

The UNHCR Guidance Note also recognizes «that criminal sanctions for homosexual activity also impede the access of LGBT persons to State protection,» and that such a situation could support a claim that the State condones or tolerates persecution of sexual minorities, or that the State is unable to offer any state protection.

Notably, the Court makes no effort to explain why it has chosen to group private, consensual homosexual activity with adultery and incest, rather than with private, consensual heterosexual activity by unmarried persons or, indeed, with oral or anal sex within marriage.

Sometimes the church uses the promiscuity of active homosexuals as evidence of the unacceptability of homosexual activity in general.

My question is: Shouldn't the preachers» brainstorming on homosexual activity in more and more disrespectful details be considered as perversion and a sin?

The fact is, this is not clear — especially with reference to the Timothy passage, which uses a singular word to describe homosexual activity and is therefore unlikely to refer to this practice.

Frank, Since Jesus had absolutely ZERO to say against homosexuality (and some believe He acknowledged being born this way in Matthew 19:12) it seems to me the burden of proof lies with those who seek to declare homosexual activity to be sinful.