Sentences with phrase «homosexual people with»

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

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This suggests that the resulting proportion of true pedophiles among persons with a homosexual erotic development is greater than that in persons who develop heterosexually.

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

Many people will find it increasingly difficult to explain» and some courts will undoubtedly share the difficulty» why homosexual adults should not seek out adolescents and teenagers to help them «feel comfortable» with their homosexual desires.

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.

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

A Netherlands pastor makes the point even more strongly by urging Christian moralists to «develop a morality for homosexuality in consultation with homosexual people» (The Sexual Revolution, by J. Rinzema [Eerdmans, 1974]-RRB-.

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

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

The same is true of Muslims, Hispanics, Mormons, homosexuals, union members, and any group of people with whom we are not personally familiar.

If a homosexual person is so made that an intimate loving relationship is possible only with a member of the same sex, on what basis can this experience of love be declared sinful?

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

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

On 3 March, Dolan wrote to President Obama to express his concern at the Administration's action, and in a public statement offered to any who will listen a clear and confident presentation of the Catholic Church's position on the question of the treatment of persons with a homosexual orientation in the civic sphere.

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.

The loneliness and lack of male confidence from the adolescent stage of life that lead to same - sex attractions to teen - age males can be resolved with no further homosexual acting - out behaviours in highly motivated persons.»

No authentic pastoral programme will include organisations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral... All support should be withdrawn from any organisations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely.

«We encourage the Bishops, then, to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses.

A heterosexual person can not help a homosexual person to develop her or his full personhood, whatever that may mean, if the heterosexual equates homosexuality with sickness or immorality.

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.)

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

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Those who welcome with open arms people who commit greed, lust, thievery, etc. but cross their fingers and hide when approached by a homosexual.

What he has to say about sexual relations between single people, be they heterosexual or homosexual, is of a piece with, and in the end but an extension of, what he says about marital relations themselves.

(NB: In this context, «homosexual» means someone with dominantly same - sex desires, while «gay» refers to a person whose self - identity is determined by such desires.)

Family Tree was inspired by a woman whose father left her to chase a homosexual lifestyle and contracted AIDS after a volatile relationship with her mother, and Two Houses is about a person wrestling with his parent's divorce and the platitudes he received.

Averaging about one page each, the case studies were collected by the author outside his clinical practice and with the cooperation of the Daughters of Bilitis, an organization of female homosexual persons.

Let me give you some examples of people you could try to develop relationships with: atheists, abortion doctors, homosexuals, pornographers, strippers, prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics, people who have different theological views than you do, people with different political views, etc..

While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.

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 part this emphasis stems from Nussbaum's repeated claim that we need literature to help us «concern ourselves with the good of other people whose lives are distant from our own,» and the experiences of the Guardians are likely to be quite «distant» from the poor, from racial and ethnic minorities, and from homosexuals.

What is tragically wrong with our society is that many people want to justify those who slander homosexuals, abortionists and even our nation's leader by drawing on the Word.

But to Miss Gebbie, the main problem is that our common ethic «misrepresents information, denies sexuality early, denies homosexual sexuality — particularly in teens — and leaves people abandoned with no place to go.»

Thibault agrees with the message, and feels that gay people who act on their homosexual urges should not be eligible for all of the sacraments of the Catholic church.

While the military does not seek to discriminate unjustly, it believes for a number of sound reasons that persons with a homosexual orientation could experience difficulty in controlling their behavior in light of the unique circumstances of military life.

In the first case, individuals attempt (or are counseled) to not accept the reality of their sexual orientation (the idea that «there are no homosexual people — just heterosexual people with a homosexual problem»).

According to Summit, a person who thinks evolution is a legitimate scientific theory, supports regulation of the free market, identifies with left - wing politics, and «seeks to empower the powerless, that is, women, minorities and homosexuals» is a postmodern secular humanist with some Marxist tendencies.

But if for homosexual people intimate relationships are more readily found with someone of their own gender, it is obviously true that the great majority of men and women find their fulfillment with people of the other gender.

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.

A conservative pundit criticizes the statement because it also affirms that «the Catholic Church teaches emphatically that individuals and society must respect the basic human dignity of all persons, including those with a homosexual orientation.»

I was opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality until I actually met homosexual men and women and realised they were good people who just wanted to get on with their lives.

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.

Next Sunday, in the First Church of Nixie, New York, or the Saint Waldemar's Church of Proxie, Alabama, I am sure the respective ministers will declare that love is a wonderful thing, that Jesus agreed with their opinions; so why doesn't everybody get on the bandwagon and love one another — taking it easy, of course, with Negroes, minority groups, homosexual persons, criminals, the mentally ill, and many others?

For more than 25 years, both associations have urged all mental health professionals to help dispel the stigma of mental illness that some people still associate with homosexual orientation.»

First of all... when God gives us «what to do» we ought not try to undermine the word of GOD... if the racist would study he would find that it is a sin to make differences in people... if the homosexual studied they would find that God said «Man is not to lay with man as with woman....

As an atheist I don't believe in God anyway, but if there was a God he would have to be sadistic kind of monster to create people with a naturally homosexual orientation and then condemn them for it.

In doing so, it reveals the deep sense of grief that the American Church must grapple with to become effective in ministry to homosexual people.

As for «scrutinizing» homosexuals in seminaries, as Mr. Steinfels knows, some people think they shouldn't be in seminaries to begin with.