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.
Not exact matches
It only
makes it all the more urgent for young
people to be told the truth that sexual promiscuity, whether
homosexual or heterosexual, may endanger their lives, that condoms are by no means a foolproof way to avoid that risk, and that chastity is the best defense.
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 Patheos site does not show replies... somehow, my inbox shows that you are asking Gary to
make a scriptural case for one of two items: — that God
makes people gay; and / or — that God blesses
homosexual behavior.
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.»
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?
The practitioners and defenders of
homosexual sin are the
people who
make it an agenda and try to intimidate anyone who calls it what God calls it — sin
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.»
On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws
making criminal offenses of acts between consenting
homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against
homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of
homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.
The Legal Fact Sheet
makes it clear that the age of consent for sexual intimacy is 16 for heterosexuals and
homosexuals, and that no one can legally have sex if he or she, or the other
person, is below 16.
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.
Affirming the invaluable contributions
made by
homosexual, bisexual, transgendered, and transsexual
persons, Fr.
The Roman Catholic church maintains this position, recently describing the
homosexual orientation as an «objective disorder».15 In Protestant and Anglican churches, a distinction is now often
made between a
homosexual orientation and
homosexual genital acts; the orientation is part of some
people's God - given
make - up and not something for which they should be condemned.
Whether killing
people for
homosexual behavior can be justified in terms of the contribution it
makes to the common good or not is a secular civil judgment call.
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....
We also find the suggestion: «
Make a list of as many famous
homosexual people as you can» (p68).
Just remember that they are
people, not just Atheists, Agnostics,
homosexuals, prostitutes, strippers, drunks, and other easy labels that can be used to define a
person, and
make them less than
people.
For example if someone calls a member of their peer group a faggot in order to assert their masculinity (and
make sure everyone around them knows they definitely are not a
homosexual), the ideal solution would be that the
person becomes secure enough in themselves that they wouldn't feel the need to put other
people down, using the word «fag» or anything else.
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.
The TVC also
makes assertions on its website about disproportionate
homosexual pedophilia and attacks the idea that
people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggests the real purpose of marriage equality is to destroy the concept of marriage and ultimately replace it altogether with group sex and polygamy.
On 31 July 2017, Labour councillor Chika Amadi was suspended from the Labour Party to allow an investigation to take place into comments she
made on Twitter that compared
Homosexuals at Pride marches to «paedophiles», before threatening
people who complained about her remarks.
Some site
made for especially
homosexual type of
person other are for sex and relationship.
Even so, he starts
making about - face statements such as, «I was a heterosexual
person with a
homosexual problem.»
At a time when
people were persecuted for their sexual orientation, Hennessy
made works containing narratives of
homosexual life that align him with the emerging queer - art movement of the 1970s.
Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which acted for Gareth Lee, the customer, in Lee v Ashers [2016] MOR 10086, said the court had «ruled out a suggestion which had been
made as part of the appeal, that anti-discrimination laws treat less favourably
people who share a religious belief concerning the sinful nature of
homosexual activity».
Notably, the Court
makes no effort to explain why it has chosen to group private, consensual
homosexual activity with adultery and incest, rather than with private, consensual heterosexual activity by unmarried
persons or, indeed, with oral or anal sex within marriage.