But, because there was no concept of gay people when the Bible was written, the Bible does not, and could not, address the sinfulness of
homosexual acts done within the context of marriage.
Because there was no concept of gay marriage when the Bible was written, the Bible does not, and could not, address the sinfulness of
homosexual acts done within the context of gay marriage.
Not exact matches
«If my son or daughter, having reached, say, the age of ten or eleven, is lured into a school sex club, is persuaded that he or she must be
homosexual,
acts accordingly, acquires HIV and then AIDS and remains crippled for life, whom
do I sue?»
And for those who don't have any moral objections to
homosexual acts, allowing gay and lesbian couples to have biological offspring appears an obvious, even self - evident, good.
So don't
act like the
homosexual issue is the only one which this phrase pertains to.
(We mention cannibalism, bestiality, and
homosexual acts together only because Oliva's argument
does.
John, I believe I don't have to presuppose to look for
homosexual acts.
Doesn't the NT verses we have talked about - no matter how few, since when
does the number matter - indicate that homosexual acts are included in those lifestyle choices that God does not want us to m
does the number matter - indicate that
homosexual acts are included in those lifestyle choices that God
does not want us to m
does not want us to make.
«You appear to agree that the Bible condemns same - sex
acts but not
homosexual acts since they didn't exist.»
Homosexual acts can't be condemned because they didn't exist.
Those who commit
homosexual acts or fornication must repent — as all of us must
do — with our own sins.
I
do understand why the sight of two
homosexuals holding hands at a concert might have turned the stomach of a hardworking, dedicated churchwoman I know who has never in her life committed an
act or espoused a position that her family, church, and society at large couldn't warmly approve; still, it's hard to forgive a human revulsion that won't question itself.
I hope to
do so here by contrasting marriage and the marital
act with same - sex unions and
homosexual acts.
Homosexual and mutually masturbatory
acts can not
do what those engaging in them may hope and imagine.
(New numbering system) 1) The confusion between homosexuality and same - sex relationships - Earlier you said «
Homosexual acts can't be condemned because they didn't exist.
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.
The conditions that required the condemnation of
homosexual acts in biblical times
do not exist now... at least in the western culture.
I don't see how consensual
homosexual acts are any more harmful than equivalent consensual heterosexual
acts.
The distinction between persons of a
homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual
acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they
did not choose.
Yet, some biblical scholars point out that this passage can only refer to the
homosexual acts of heterosexual persons.7 This is because the writers of the Bible
did not distinguish between a
homosexual orientation and same - gender sexual
acts.
If we
do not have a Telos, then there could not possibly be a problem with
homosexual acts or same - sex marriage — or with many other things as well.
Since
homosexual acts by their very nature are neither unitive nor generative, but masturbatory, they can have nothing to
do with marriage.
As long as we
do not succumb to sinful
acts, why
does it matter if people — even we Christians — continue to identify as
homosexuals or heterosexuals?
c) This passage
does not denounce
homosexual behavior as a whole, but just the specific
act of anal sex.
It
does not, however, address the state of homosexuality itself - much less the subject of
homosexual acts between a married gay couple.
It is true, of course, that women have a federal right to have abortions, while
homosexuals do not (as yet) have a federal right to perform
acts of sodomy.
He said each agency must
act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are
homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»
The film is basically a remake of Bunuel's classic Belle
du Jour, and features plenty of lingerie - clad and naked beauties engaged in a variety of soft - core hetero and
homosexual acts.
Article 9 (1) of Directive 2004/83, read together with Article 9 (2)(c) thereof, must be interpreted as meaning that the criminalisation of
homosexual acts per se
does not constitute an
act of persecution.
(3)
Do the criminalisation of
homosexual activities and the threat of imprisonment in relation thereto, as set out in the Offences against the Person
Act 1861 of Sierra Leone (Case C - 199 / 12), the Penal Code Act 1950 of Uganda (Case C - 200 / 12) or the Senegalese Penal Code (Case C - 201 / 12) constitute an act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directi
Act 1861 of Sierra Leone (Case C - 199 / 12), the Penal Code
Act 1950 of Uganda (Case C - 200 / 12) or the Senegalese Penal Code (Case C - 201 / 12) constitute an act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directi
Act 1950 of Uganda (Case C - 200 / 12) or the Senegalese Penal Code (Case C - 201 / 12) constitute an
act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directi
act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directive?
Although the facts in Sadeghi - Pari, above differ from the case at bar as the Applicant in the said case had effectively been apprehended for
homosexual acts, it remains that the RPD should have discussed why the Applicant
does not face such a risk.
The Divorce
Act does not distinguish between heterosexual and
homosexual couples, nor
does Ontario's Family Law
Act (which governs property claims for divorcing spouses), and Canadian courts apply the law equally to all married couples.