The differentiation of
homosexual orientation from gender identity (for females as well as males) has been increasingly recognized, and a highly competent summing up is available in Man and Woman: Boy and Girl, by John Money and Anke A. Ehrhardt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).
Not exact matches
What is wrong, what is unnatural, what is immoral and what is gross is intolerance and discrimination against fellow human beings for their sexual
orientation and active pursuit of preventing loving and committed
homosexual couples
from legally being married.
since God made
homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural
orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an
orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created
from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.
But the report made a most useful contribution: a scale of points
from zero to six, with the zero representing those males demonstrating no
homosexual interest or activity whatever, and the six representing those of exclusively
homosexual orientation.
His
homosexual orientation is not something to be ashamed of, but is a gift
from God.
Moreover, although some groups and individuals have offered clinical interventions that purport to change sexual
orientation from homosexual to heterosexual — sometimes called «conversion» therapies — these interventions have not been shown to be effective or safe.
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.
But this form of
homosexual behavior — an act that is chosen — is quite different
from homosexual Christians today who may not remember knowing themselves as other than
homosexual in
orientation.
While these groups are undoubtedly a valuable support for many people, there have been some questions raised recently
from within the group itself about the underlying premise of Courage that a
homosexual orientation is a psychological disorder.
The fact is, boy scouts are already forbidden
from engaging in sexual activity — heterosexual or
homosexual — and so the change in policy simply addresses sexual
orientation.
(a) Can foreign nationals with a
homosexual orientation be expected to conceal their
orientation from everyone in their [respective] country of origin in order to avoid persecution?
In case you are not familiar with reparative therapy, it refers to a controversial set of procedures that attempt to change someone's sexual
orientation, usually
from homosexual to heterosexual.