Sentences with phrase «homosexual practices»

Ssempa joined Family Life Network's Stephen Langa to demand that Parliament immediately launch a probe of «homosexual practices» in Uganda.

In actuality, I suggest, a violation of their religious freedom would have entailed someone forcing them to disobey the tenants of their religion by engaging in homosexual practices themselves.

Later still, as mentioned above, women began to assert their objections to male homosexual practices.

At one point he indulges in a thought - experiment with reference to certain New Guinea tribes where ritual homosexual practices with young boys are normative.

Sufficed to say there are many examples of cultures, more past but some present that were / are generally accepting of homosexual practices as normal and natural.

I heard statements from my grandfather as far back as I could remember that homosexual practices were something the «white man» taught us and that it was a sign of weakness and weirdness in their culture.

The problem does not even seem very new, as demonstrated by a passage of the Babylonian Talmud (Chulin 92b) in which it is said that among the few limits that the nations of the world have not exceeded is that they have not yet consented to «writing the Ketubbà for males,» even if they are certainly not attentive to respecting the ban on homosexual practices.

A protest took place outside of a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday, which rejected screening a new film about «men and women moving out of homosexual practices and feelings».

The Northern Irish charity offers therapeutic support to individuals «who wish to move out of homosexual practices, and opposes the determination of aggressive gay lobbies wanting to impose a ban on such support».

They know that I love them and support them but I've also made my convictions clear that they must repent of homosexual practices.

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

He goes on to give an example of Agnosticism in action citing «an eminent critic and writer defending homosexual practices» in terms of a claim that there are `'» many normalcies of love»».

To develop such a morality, emphasizes Smedes, «is not to accept homosexual practices as morally commendable.

As to same - sex marriage stabilizing homosexual practices, this is of course the argument of Andrew Sullivan and some other gay activists, although there is little or no evidence to support it.

(Just as predictably, the church's doctrine and discipline, with regard to homosexual practice, received even more attention.)

Then it was homosexual practice.

There are absolutely zero positive references to homosexual practice in the Scriptures.

It is not fair, for example, to compel a child being raised by a gay couple to attend a school in which the teachers say homosexual practice is sin.

Robert A. J. Gagnon is associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice.

Nor is it fair to compel a child from a home that embraces historic Christian sexual norms to attend a school in which the teachers portray homosexual practice or open marriage as just one of many equally acceptable lifestyle options.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

(TCUJ concluded that Ohene agrees with Catalano's view that Scripture does not prohibit homosexual practice.)

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.

Still, in spite of his conviction that homosexual practice is against God's will, Wesley says he has not been able to change his orientation.

But the change liberated him, and gave him peace of soul: «The obvious unnaturalness and therefore wrongness of homosexual practice had been troubling me for years.»

Book Review: The Bible and Homosexual Practice.

Perhaps Eichenwald's greatest folly is in arguing that anyone who adopts Paul's lawfree gospel must give up on the prohibitions of Leviticus against homosexual practice.

The tone of Walter Wink's review of my book The Bible and Homosexual Practice («To hell with gays?

Eichenwald's final argument for why Christians should give up on their opposition to homosexual practice is all too predictable.

I don't know anyone who claims that homosexual practice is the worst of all sins.

What Scripture does indicate clearly is that homosexual practice is a severe sexual violation.

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon Press).

Yet if, as Eichenwald alleges, all sins are equal, why not compare the New Testament's opposition to homosexual practice to its opposition to behaviors that even Eichenwald disapproves, such as consensual incest, kidnapping, idolatry, and cheating the poor out of their life savings?

Eichenwald is careful to compare opposition to homosexual practice only to biblical offenses that he thinks evangelicals will have a difficult time opposing consistently: drunkenness, greed, pride, and the injunction in 1 Tim 2:9 — 15 for women to keep silent and not have authority over men.

«24 Tellingly, Lovelace turns to texts teaching on human sexuality more generally, only after he has considered the specific passages prohibiting homosexual practice.

Incest, homosexual practice, and bestiality are not lesser offenses than adultery simply because they are not specified in the Decalogue.

Newsweek, in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, says that Christians who regard homosexual practice as sin (or who — horror!

Fornication, adultery, and homosexual practice are not simply itemized as forbidden behavior; they are treated as objects of shame and loathing.

Even Paul, who was clearly against homosexual practice, spoke of the body of Christ as one unit made of many diverse members.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

In The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, Gagnon writes:

Though it is easy to make the case (in the church) that homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture, it will be exceedingly difficult case to make in today's culture.

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.

Though it is easy to make the case in the church that homosexual practice (and marriage) is incompatible with scripture, it will be an exceedingly difficult case to make in today's culture.

«This is yet a third reason Scripture and the church's no to homosexual practice makes sense to me.»

«On the basis of texts such as these,» Wesley concludes, «the Christian church has consistently and repeatedly said no to homosexual practice.»

But Wesley concludes: «In the end, what keeps me on the path I've chosen is not so much individual proof texts from Scripture or the sheer weight of the church's traditional teaching against homosexual practice.

In his book on AIDS, John Fortunato quotes an evangelical chaplain who began every initial conversation with gay AIDS patients with a harsh denunciation of the sin of homosexual practice (AIDS: The Spiritual Dilemma Harper & Row, 1987], pp. 103 - 104).

If the Bible teaches that homosexual practice is wrong, as I think it does, then it is right to suppose that violating God's law in this area will have negative consequences.