Sentences with phrase «homosexual inclination»

With respect to the understanding of homosexuality, therefore, neither homosexual condition nor homosexual inclination nor specifically homosexual acts may be interpreted as excluding one from the domain of God's gracious intention.

Is homosexual inclination an obstacle to be overcome — a training ground for the will in the discipline of renunciation which prepares one for some further obedience?

Should a homosexual inclination be placed in an order similar to that of marriage?

To what use then is one of homosexual inclination to put this homosexuality?

These are leading questions — not to be permitted to become a priori pronouncements about the condition of persons of homosexual inclination, history or intention.

Of course, there were disagreements, but the statements, adopted overwhelmingly, are: «Married Life and the Gift of Love», «Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination» and «Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper».

In February's Public Square (While We're At It), Richard John Neuhaus responds to a Christianity Today article by a married ELCA parish council member and youth group leader who discussed his desire to be able to share with his church his struggle with a homosexual inclination.

Now if, as Oliva proposes, Thomas means that the homosexual inclination comes from the most intimate part of the person's soul, then the same reading must apply to Aquinas's mention of cannibalism and bestiality.

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

This, I'm told, is the kind of humor that people who watch Stephen Colbert, who is a self - identified faithful member of a Church that teaches that homosexual inclinations are intrinsically disordered and that sodomy is a mortal sin, relish.

There is a need to be concerned about the pastoral needs of persons with homosexual inclinations.

Ynetnews: Top rabbi: Soften attitude towards gays Religious gays» battle for rabbinical and communal recognition continues to bear fruit: Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, a senior Religious Zionism rabbi, has ruled that people with homosexual inclinations should not be condemned more than Shabbat desecrators or frauds.

Not exact matches

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

Also, for Oliva, Aquinas places the origin of the inclination for gay sex in the soul of the homosexual person.

In the definition of a homosexual, the distinction between the inclination toward (orientation) and the practice of (behavior) homosexuality is essential to keep in mind throughout this paper.

In its alternative definition, the word designated not «normal - sex,» but rather a different brand of deviant sex, like its homosexual counterpart in its disregard for procreation but made distinct by the typical object of its lustful inclinations.

I hold that the approximately 10 percent of the world population who are homosexual in inclination and whose only satisfying sexual expression is that with someone of their own gender are acting in a fashion which is entirely normal and natural for them.