Not exact matches
The married - sex - only agreement that Wheaton students and faculty sign is part of the college's Community Covenant, which says that students agree the Bible condemns «sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography, premarital sex, adultery,
homosexual behavior and all other sexual
relations outside the bounds of marriage
between a man and woman.»
What he has to say about sexual
relations between single people, be they heterosexual or
homosexual, is of a piece with, and in the end but an extension of, what he says about marital
relations themselves.
«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.»
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.
Let us now turn to inquire whether there may not be in fact principles of theology which illumine the
relation between the church and homosexuality in terms other than the proscription of
homosexual acts.
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.