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.
You may, if you like, get this or that person out of the church — like
the homosexual person who is generally in control of himself but who has occasional relapses.
Another idea was to limit the drug to specific populations who are at the very highest risk, such as
homosexual people who use intravenous drugs, but the FDA adopted a vaguer category encapsulating anyone at high risk of contracting HIV.
Not exact matches
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.
So the lesbian couple
who left sex far behind them aren't in sin even though they're in a long term committed love relationship and the two elderly gentlemen
who no longer have sex are also not in sin, and yet these are
homosexual relationships between
people who choose to share their lives.
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.
This, I'm told, is the kind of humor that
people who watch Stephen Colbert,
who is a self - identified faithful member of a Church that teaches that
homosexual inclinations are intrinsically disordered and that sodomy is a mortal sin, relish.
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?
The other book (
Who Walk Alone, by Margaret Evening, 1974) speaks of the gifts, sensitivity and loving natures characterizing many
homosexual persons and includes this statement:
«Many
homosexual people follow Christ, drawn to him by his love and his outstretched arms welcoming all those
who turn to him.»
I suppose that if a
person who is
homosexual truly believes that it is not a sin (after they have read those verses by themselves), then they can be trusting in God.
Let us never use the word «
homosexual» in reference to a
person, for it is a term that has become an epithet in the usage of those
who are biased against
persons of
homosexual orientation.
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.
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.
However, I do not hurt
people — my friends
who are
homosexuals (one came to Christ) I have known a long time — before they chose that lifestyle.
It is important, they say, that in every congregation such
homosexual persons should find fellow - Christians
who sensitively provide friendship and understanding.
At the same time an effective support network for those
who wish to live a chaste life in spite of
homosexual temptations is necessary lest faithful
people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.
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.
Almost 9 out of 10 Americans know someone
who is gay or lesbian (87 %), and those
people are more likely to say homosexuality is morally acceptable (19 %) than those
who don't have a
homosexual friend or family member (3 %).
A new Christian film about
people who have abandoned
homosexual lifestyles will not screened in central London tonight, after a venue booking was cancelled.
But we need to remember that
homosexual practice and orientation are conflated by the government so that not supporting a
homosexual lifestyle is not to support the
person who claims to be
homosexual.
A Northern Ireland university has rejected calls for a new film about
people who say they left behind
homosexual lifestyles to be screened at its premises.
In truth there are many
who see this as just dessert for those
who, they feel, persecuted
homosexual people in times past.
Every
person is heterosexual, including those
who engage in
homosexual behavior.
The
people who hate and despise
homosexuals would be infuriated if society sanctioned their existence and suggested that they were just like everybody else, by giving them the right to marry.
A
person's sexuality — whether heterosexual,
homosexual, or bisexual — is a very deep biological piece of
who that
person is as an individual.
The premiere of a new Christian film about
people who say they left behind
homosexual lifestyles went ahead, despite a venue booking being cancelled.
How tragic it is that the Christian Church has excluded and persecuted
people who are
homosexual!
Those
who welcome with open arms
people who commit greed, lust, thievery, etc. but cross their fingers and hide when approached by a
homosexual.
«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.»
To
homosexual people reading this
who are hurting: please be assured that not all Christians condemn you, hate you or want to change you.
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
Love the fact that
people give sexual expression to «
who they really are»» whether heterosexual or
homosexual» but hate these men for belonging to an institution that teaches that sexual expression is not necessary to being
who you really are.
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.
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..
«Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women
who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward
persons of the same sex... Tradition has always declared that «
homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»
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».
But the
person who insists she is a Catholic, but finds the Trinity «patriarchal and oppressive», Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross «just so bloodthirsty», lesbian and
homosexual relationships «a lifestyle to be celebrated», and the Pope «a ridiculous figure»......... such a
person's contribution to dialogue lacks integrity and meaning Pro's And Con's Of The Ghetto Culture Of course, the reasons for wanting to emphasise one's Catholicism are pretty obvious: it gives status, enlarges one's importance, and is, at present, very fashionable.
This leaves the
homosexual no worse off than any normal
person who is, for whatever reason, prevented from marrying.
If you believe that
people who accept evolution, love
homosexuals, and vote democrat can not be true Christians, you might be a legalist.
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.
«Voices of the Silenced: Experts, Evidences and Ideologies» features the testimonies of15
people from eight countries
who have moved away from
homosexual activity.
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.
Having counseled personnel accused of
homosexual behavior and having reviewed cases involving charges of homosexuality, I have yet to come across a case where a
person was discharged
who denied having engaged in
homosexual conduct.
You can be certain that is not Louie Giglio — even still some prefer to believe that any opposition to
homosexual practice, and
people who hold that view, must apparently be silenced for the common good.
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.
What about Fred Phelps, the scary pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church
who says that God hates
people he predetermined to be
homosexuals?
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.
«I have seen absolutely nothing but mercy and grace and tender kindness shown by christians towards
people who are
homosexuals.