Sentences with phrase «homosexual persons»

But this 1990 study was actually based on a sample that was apparently distorted by volunteer bias and hence not representative of homosexual persons in general.

Several homosexual persons said they even feared physical violence on the part of the conservative Christian group.

It does not follow that all or even most homosexual persons are drawn to children.

In contemporary culture, «gay» is the most common word for describing homosexual persons.

Most people don't mind having homosexual people around, as long as it is not on the open.

Ultimately, what causes homosexuality doesn't matter as much as the fact that homosexual people exist, and have always existed, in every society on earth.

The document fails to consider other facets of homosexual people which are of equal or greater moral importance.

The Catechism tells Catholics to treat homosexual people with «respect, compassion, and sensitivity.»

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

It should be added that many homosexual people do not judge their responsible homosexual expression in those terms, either.

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

Thus, I basically concur with the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons in its description of the homosexual condition as a «moral disorder,» a «disordered sexual inclination.»

He then founded a counseling ministry in Arlington, Virginia, called Liberation, which is geared toward helping homosexual persons who want to change their way of life.

For some of them, at least, the new Vatican statement on sex education will present a conflict in the area of helping homosexual people.

And he reiterated a point his speech made, perhaps as part of a premonition: «Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way.

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.»

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.

However great efforts in proclaiming the dignity of active homosexual persons, confuses many people who are not used to seeing the dignity of adulterers or pornographers proclaimed with vehemence in the same breath as their behaviour is reproved.

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

That being said, you won't find many openly homosexual people in Belize.

Why can't two committed homosexual persons have this permanence?

It is important, they say, that in every congregation such homosexual persons should find fellow - Christians who sensitively provide friendship and understanding.

At the three - week meeting in 2014, one of the bishops» working documents sparked a media firestorm when it included a section called «Welcoming homosexual persons.»

«Many homosexual people follow Christ, drawn to him by his love and his outstretched arms welcoming all those who turn to him.»

This comes after the majority of the leading Archbishops of the whole global Anglican Communion affirmed in January 2016 that diminishing and criminalising homosexual people is wrong.

Chaste homosexual persons poignantly show us the real meaning of our sexuality, and in so doing proclaim the good news that truth is neither autonomous nor heteronomous, but participatory.

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.

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

The crisis point came following the ELCA's 2009 decision to bless same - sex relationships and allow noncelibate homosexual people to be ordained.

Shawn, I think Christians DO often ask homosexual people to become straight.

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.

Thinking perhaps of how they once condemned alcoholics instead of trying to accept and help them, they have become open to discussions and not infrequently have invited homosexual persons to speak.

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.

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.

But neither can official church statements emanating from the Vatican and other Catholic agencies ignore other equally serious «moral issues» such as prejudice, willful ignorance, hostility, violence (both physical and psychological) and the pastoral neglect that homosexual people face every day.

The WSCC statement refuses to reduce homosexual people to their genital expression: «Gays and lesbians have just as much right to our approval and acceptance of their overall activity.»

Delegate Al Quie, the former governor of Minnesota, had offered a resolution earlier in the day: «Rostered leadership of this church who are homosexual in their self understanding are expected to abstain from homosexual sexual relations and practicing homosexual persons are precluded from rostered leadership in this church.»

I was musing recently to a friend of mine, who happened to have attended my south coast comprehensive - albeit twenty years before me - that I didn't know any openly homosexual people during my schooldays.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

During his appearance at the synagogue, with reporters in attendance, Mr. Paladino said: «Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way.