Sentences with phrase «homosexual conduct»

Having counseled personnel accused of homosexual behavior and having reviewed cases involving charges of homosexuality, I have yet to come across a case where a person was discharged who denied having engaged in homosexual conduct.

FRC spokespeople at one time or another have endorsed criminal penalties for homosexual conduct and praised Uganda's move toward harsh punitive measures against the LGBT community and its supporters.

Uganda recently enacted a harshly anti-gay law, imposing penalties even on those who fail to report homosexual conduct they are aware of, but the courts rejected it on procedural grounds.

«Faux civility, embarrassment, prudishness and a fear of expressing an unpopular opinion has caused many Christians to refrain from explaining how homosexual conduct destroys lives,» Carter wrote.

The movement to approve homosexual conduct as an acceptable lifestyle is not surprising in today's permissive society.

The influence of gay marriage, Sullivan believes, would not only make it easier to grow up gay, but would actually change how adult homosexuals conduct their lives.

Ten years earlier, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Court had upheld the power of a state to make sodomy a crime; but now, as Justice Scalia pointed out, the Court was willing to strike down a law merely for «disfavoring homosexual conduct.»

The statement even quotes from a 2003 Vatican document — signed by then - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and approved by St. John Paul II — which is quite strong in its teaching against homosexual conduct and same - sex unions.

Sprigg, from the Family Research Council, says his condemnation of homosexual conduct does not spring from intolerance but a desire to protect gays from harmful conduct, he says.

Though the Obama administration is opposed to DADT, which has banned homosexual conduct in the military since 1993, it defended the policy in court in a lawsuit lodged by the Log Cabin Republicans.

Police also actively support homophobic violence, fail to investigate complaints of abuse, and arrest and detain them based on their alleged homosexual conduct.

Photo: Irish Independent Until 1994, Irish law still criminalized homosexual conduct.

Colonial Christian School of Homestead, Fla., makes clear in its handbook that students will be expelled if they engage in homosexual conduct.

FRC's leaders have at one time or another endorsed criminal penalties for homosexual conduct and praised Uganda's move toward harsh anti-LGBT punitive measures.

Uganda recently enacted a harshly anti-gay law, imposing penalties even on those who fail to report homosexual conduct they are aware of, but the courts in that nation rejected it on procedural grounds.

Moore, who identifies as an evangelical Christian and views homosexuality as a lifestyle that is «against nature,» said in a 2005 interview on C - SPAN2 that he believes «homosexual conduct should be illegal.»

Neither homosexual conduct nor extramarital heterosexual intimacy are ever honoring to God or to those who bear his image.

Surely that is the only sort of «animus» at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual conduct.

And perhaps he holds this view at least in part because he endorses, and aims publicly to advance, the view that all homosexual conduct is inherently immoral and therefore unworthy of nearly any form of specific legal protection or recognition.

The latest figures available from the Centers for Disease Control show that two - thirds of all AIDS cases are directly attributable to homosexual conduct.

Decisions of individuals relating to homosexual conduct have been subject to state intervention throughout the history of Western civilization.

«Like equally atavistic opinions about racial groups,» he wrote, the opinion that homosexual conduct is immoral is «nourished by sectarian doctrine.»

We are on our way to the approval of homosexual conduct, despite the moral objections of most Americans, because the Court views such moral disapproval as nothing more than redneck bigotry.

At a time when that government was trying to enact a harshly anti-gay law ---- sidetracked at least for the moment by a court ruling ---- that includes jail time even for those who fail to report knowledge of homosexual conduct, Cabrera decried the rise of «cultural shifters going after our young.»

Imagine the unfair choice that Webber would have faced under Judge Easterbrook's approach when Danner asked his first over-the-top question: «Mr. Gerstein, have you ever engaged in homosexual conduct?»

During the deposition, Danner, the plaintiffs lawyer, began asking the co-defendant intrusive and irrelevant questions, such as whether he had engaged in homosexual conduct.

A political community which judges that the stability and protective and educative generosity of family life are of fundamental importance to the whole community's present and future can rightly judge that it has compelling reasons for judging that homosexual conduct... is never a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of life, in denying that same - sex partners are capable of marrying, and in doing whatever it properly can... to discourage such conduct.

Children in schools everywhere now «will be coerced to affirm the correctness and the normalcy of homosexuality, homosexual conduct, and gay marriage,» he said.