Sentences with phrase «homosexual life style»

To what extent is the choice (if it is that) of a homosexual life style a refusal of the responsibilities which others bear in connection with ongoing relationship, marriage and family?

Now, as even this brief and arbitrary list of questions should indicate, any illumination of the peculiar temptations of a homosexual life style may also serve to illuminate the peculiar temptations of a heterosexual life style and the commonality of temptation for both.

Moreover, the illumination of the peculiar forms of temptation is the necessary corollary for the illumination of the peculiar forms of vocation pertinent to a homosexual life style.

This negative assertion therefore stands against all attempts to argue for the autonomous or intrinsic legitimacy of any «life style» and against those who condemn homosexuality from the standpoint of an assumed righteousness of heterosexual marital fidelity or those who, condemning the obvious hypocrisies and oppressions ingredient to the institution of marriage, claim the autonomous validity of a homosexual life style.

Let me suggest a few questions about the peculiar form of temptation to which a homosexual life style may be open.

The ensuing debate too often takes the form of a contest between defenders of traditional morality on the one hand and apologists for homosexual life style on the other.

Not exact matches

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

How then does this principle of the perilous character of sexuality apply to the question of homosexual «life style»?

How do the fundamental principles of Christian theology illuminate the question or complex of homosexual / heterosexual life styles?

With the works in this show, they pay tribute to the taste, style, and life of the Hollywood homosexual, acknowledging his historically hidden existence.