Sentences with phrase «homosexual people as»

We also find the suggestion: «Make a list of as many famous homosexual people as you can» (p68).

It is not to be misconstrued as criticism or an attack on homosexual persons as individuals or a group.

Coffin argues for the stance of absolute acceptance of the homosexual person as the one acceptable Christian attitude.

Not exact matches

If marriage is a «lifestyle» choice for heterosexual couples, as people seem to believe, why should homosexual couples not be allowed to marry?

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 disordHomosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disordhomosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

I also know people who hold to the same beliefs regarding homosexuals as fishon but who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on both sides of the debate... and even though they still think homosexuality is a sin, they don't resort to the language and comparasions that fishon does... because they know that homosexuality isn't anything comparable to pedophilia or alcoholism.

Homosexual people will be accepted as equal, full human beings, who have a legitimate claim on every right that both church and society have to offer any of us.

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

Especially among the college - educated, these young people know homosexuals and count them as friends.

I don't identify with the victims, the Islam ladies, the quivering question marks, the short people, the homosexuals, all the persecuted Naked Pastor exposes so as to reveal the horror and the agony.

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.

One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

So Steve, You believe that a person who, as you say, belongs to Christ, and is a practicing homosexual when they die, they are going to heaven?

Schwoyer made the point that many people think of homosexuals as concerned only with lust.

For the premises were firmly in place: Justice Kennedy had said that people in homosexual relations «seek autonomy» for themselves, just as people in heterosexual relations do.

Engaging or not engaging in homosexual activities is viewed as a choice, and thus the power of Christ is needed to enable the person to change or resist homosexual temptations.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Reparative therapy, however, should in no way be presented as a requirement for the homosexual person.

Listening to our law in our bodies It is just as inappropriate for the homosexual person to «do what he wants with his body.»

Note well that the homosexual person, in living chastely, is in a most noble way doing something profoundly positive: by not misusing his sexuality he is respectfully acknowledging that ultimately our generative faculties are not ours to use as we please; the sacred interplay is God's territory wherein we participate, not over which we arbitrate.

Wesley Hill understands that, as a faithfully Christian homosexual man, he is not in the only category of people who are not called to sexual activity.

Homosexual persons have, of course, legitimate rights such as the right to work and the right to be treated fairly.

I read two articles last year (which I didn't document, like you, thinking it was out of the question) about pedophiles making the exact same argument as the present day argument that homosexuals have taken from the cause of the Black people; «they were born that way.»

But I also say that people who choose other lifestyles, heterosexual or homosexual, should be accepted, just as atheists and libertarians are accepted, in the hope that they will come to faith in Jesus which will presumably involve repentance.

As Cobb points out, the Christ of the churches today is bad news for homosexual persons.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

It will be the Church which defends the dignity of all persons when the levers of power move from the present hegemony that favours the homosexual lobby to another hegemony that may just as easily not.

In truth there are many who see this as just dessert for those who, they feel, persecuted homosexual people in times past.

Among other things, the Italian Dominican calls for a revolution in the Church's pastoral practice among the divorced and civilly remarried as well as sexually active homosexual persons.

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.

A person's sexuality — whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual — is a very deep biological piece of who that person is as an individual.

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.

Treating homosexual activity as a private matter (and some people now treat group sexual activity this way as well) shapes our society's mores.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

Olivia's claim that, for Thomas, some persons are born with a homosexual soul, is outrageous as a matter of textual interpretation.

As for acting out of personal arrogance, the mistreatment, even abuse, of those on the fringes of society is what I was saying leads me to question the treatment of homosexual people.

God's morality does not change, and as a church and a people we often have a lot of bigotry toward the increasing numbers of homosexuals in our midst — however!

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

He makes a good point that he uses the terms «gay» and «homosexual» as adjectives, not as nouns, as in «gay Christian» or «homosexual person.»

Flat out, I want as many homosexuals, drug addicts, divorcees, and alcoholics as possible darkening the doors of Brand New Church, because those people want and need change.

At the most negative pole for Nelson are those holding to a «rejecting - punitive» approach - one which «unconditionally rejects homosexuality as legitimate and bears a punitive attitude toward homosexual persons.»

Persons choosing homosexual acts are not speaking the «language of the body,» in which the body itself is integral to their union as bodily beings.

Therefore, homosexual acts damage «the body's capacity for the marital act as an act of self - giving which constitutes a communion of bodily persons.»

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

Even if it may be shown that some homosexuals have an orientation that they have not chosen, it is fair to state that homosexual behavior is in fact «a choice,» and one that most people do not view as normal conduct either for themselves or their sons and daughters in or out of the military.

We had this discussion at church should we allow homosexuals in leadership i was the only one who spoke up and i had prayed during the week and confessed all my sin before the Lord i certainly had no right to condemn someone else for there sin.But the fact is that it needs addressing that was my question to the people presenting the proposal.Is homosexuality a sin the people taking the discussion would not address it as they knew scripturally that it was and clearly had no answer on dealing with that issue and tried to detour around it.