Sentences with phrase «homosexual persons who»

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.

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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.
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.
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