Sentences with phrase «homosexual relations»

Our generation has evolved in the matter of homosexual relations, accepting that way of life and the right of the State to endorse it through civil partnerships.

They have done everything in their power to make men and women feel guilty about having sex with each other, while the leadership was having homosexual relations behind closed doors.

Thus, online services for dating sites homosexual relations are established.

Many others had engaged in homosexual relations, which are outlawed in Cuba.

The Mormon church has always treated homosexual relations as wrongful conduct, and already classed them with fornication and adultery as offenses calling for discipline.

For example, according to this book, four out of five evangelicals say that homosexual relations between two consenting adults should be illegal.

In 1991, three in four Americans said homosexual relations are always wrong.

«The ordination of women on all levels of clerical orders,» it wrote, «is a clear deviation from Christian practice,» as is «the emergence of a new moral - code concerning human sexuality and especially homosexual relations.»

is a convincing and remarkably candid argument that the case for homosexual relations must be made against Scripture and the Christian tradition.

Chudacoff, who throughout his book tends to introduce the theme of homosexuality with hints and surmises rather than data, counters Stott's argument with this: «More recently [actually less recently — in 1985 and 1988] other historians have discovered hints [of homosexual relations].»

I could go into why at the time with men and women having different roles, it was important they partner - up, or what types of homosexual relations prevailed at the time, but there's no need.

He said that a church that approved homosexual relations had by that act ceased to be a true church.

Homosexual relations represented a stage in some young men's lives, after which they would settle down to heterosexual marriage.

Thirty or more years ago, a professor who publicly announced that he thinks homosexual relations are dandy would have been viewed as a very suspect character.

They are increasingly sympathetic to social norms that affirm homosexual relations.

Transgenerational homosexuality is found in primitive societies where homosexual relations occur between a young male and an older teacher or tribal holy man.

Thus the principle of cohumanity does enable us to distinguish between better and worse relationships, but it can not serve to dismiss homosexual relations as worse a priori.

Sixty - four per cent regard homosexual relations in private between consenting adults as immoral, but 75 per cent do not want a law against such practices.

So, just when PayPal decided not to attack print erotica through Smashwords and many other venues after all, Amazon has decided marginalizing homosexual relations is okay.

Common sense, reinforced by social scientific research of the obvious, tells us that homosexuals are more likely to engage in homosexual relations than heterosexuals.

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

Homosexual relations was a normal occurrence among the Romans.

YOU: Homosexual relations was a normal occurrence among the Romans.

Justice Kennedy insisted that his decision that day entailed no further, «formal recognition» of the homosexual relation — i.e., marriage.

For the premises were firmly in place: Justice Kennedy had said that people in homosexual relations «seek autonomy» for themselves, just as people in heterosexual relations do.

To believe that homosexual relations are sinful, as does biblical religion, defines the believer as a bigot in the view of liberal opinion, which is backed by the federal regulatory apparatus and the regulators of most American states, as well as by most of the judicial system.

The magisterium appeals to these authorities as grounds for repudiating divorce, abortion, homosexual relations, and the ordination of women to the priesthood.

In recent years, he has been outspoken in his opposition within the Evangelical Church in Germany to any approval of homosexual relations.

These «highly religious» students tend to be more disapproving than their peers of casual sex, abortion, homosexual relations, and the legalization of marijuana.

In the early chapters, Greenberg develops a typology of homosexual relations.

Justice Blackmun responded that the case was not about «a fundamental right to engage in homosexual relations,» as the majority opinion pretended.

Contrary to popular belief, homosexual relations are not entirely on sex.

In its decision, one of the judges referred to the claim for equal human rights protection as an effort to seek «the validation of homosexual relations, including sodomy, as a protected and fundamental right... rebutting a millennia of moral teaching» and then shockingly went on to liken the protection of sexual orientation in human rights legislation with the «violently aberrant sexual configurations» of mass murderers Jeffrey Dahmer, Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen.