The phrase
"homosexual behavior" refers to actions or activities that involve someone with a same-sex partner, expressing romantic or sexual feelings towards someone of the same gender.
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Whether killing people
for homosexual behavior can be justified in terms of the contribution it makes to the common good or not is a secular civil judgment call.
Even among those who count
homosexual behavior as a sin, there is usually at least some room in the fellowship for people attracted to the same sex.
49 percent of those without a college degree
say homosexual behavior is a sin, compared with 35 percent who have a college degree.
Is loving our brother
promoting homosexual behavior or the killing of 55 million babies in the name of women's health, but under the guise of love?
Consider Muslim society, which has permitted divorce from the start but whose tolerance of
open homosexual behavior is obviously limited.
The gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of
draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.
To confirm their theory, the researchers plan to study the conditions that make
homosexual behavior more or less likely in bugs.
Fresh stats on who thinks churches should endorse candidates,
whether homosexual behavior is a sin, and has it gotten harder to be an evangelical.
There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions
of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»
Americans who never attend religious services are the most likely to say they do not
believe homosexual behavior is a sin (71 percent).
Oregon voters rejected a proposal on their statewide ballot last week that would have prevented teachers in public schools from offering lessons construed as
condoning homosexual behavior.
Let me illustrate the difference it makes with one of the hot - button issues in the contemporary church, this is the single law, and there is only one, in the Hebrew Bible
prohibiting homosexual behavior amongst men.
Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people
finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.
Though there may be some people who more or less fit those categories, the hard truth is that Christians of good will — more, Christians of good faith — for whom the Bible remains the source and norm of faith and life sincerely disagree about whether or how biblical passages
regarding homosexual behavior relate to the current situation.
In his booklet An Evangelical Look at Homosexuality (Homosexual Community Counseling Center, 1972), Ralph Blair suggests that «part of the task of evangelicals is to abandon unbiblical crusades against homosexuality and to help those who have quite naturally developed along homosexual lines to accept themselves as Christ accepted them — just as they are — and to live lives which include
responsible homosexual behavior.»
Chapter of Romans, with its account of humanity's movement from God toward idolatry, has furnished the text for countless sermons claiming that
homosexual behavior signifies the lowest depths of human depravity.
Even though there are no explicit NT prohibitions
on homosexual behavior, Hays judges it to be inconsistent with the symbolic world revealed in the text.
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.
But there are other phenomena that have come to attention in recent years about
homosexual behavior among women — phenomena which, even though lacking careful study, are suggestive enough to warrant, preliminary comment.
Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly
avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?
In advancing this argument, however, they fail to acknowledge that being black or a woman relates to personhood, which is a nonbehavioral trait quite distinct
from homosexual behavior.
In listing «social isolation» among the possible causes, Educational Guidance might be confusing true homosexuality with «
situational homosexual behavior,» such as occurs in same - sex, isolated social situations like prisons.
Register Rachel for Vacation Bible School and then hand the couple Marantha Bible's statement of faith, including the part on human sexuality
where homosexual behavior is condemned.
You know, I disagree with this treatment as well, however, many universities (especially in Social Work curriculum) are refusing to graduate believers who reject
adopting homosexual behavior and / or choosing to not counsel them (as a matter of competence).
The New
Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have been various cultural and moral responses.