Sentences with phrase «homosexual unions»

Nor is it an argument against committed homosexual unions.

This is dramatically clear in the movement to establish homosexual unions as an alternative kind of family.

That would mean that he would oppose homosexual unions.

Yet critics of homosexual unions overlook the extent to which our societies are addicted to sexualization and sentimentality and are inclined to excuse these factors in the case of heterosexuals.

The homosexual couple can not mean this: Their union can not mean the child as gift as even the infertile and adoptive heterosexual couple's can, for homosexual union signifies the irrelevance of sexual difference to the meaning of the person.

«Writing the Ketubbà for males» means sanctioning homosexual union with a regime of legal and economic guarantees.

knowing the socio - cultural context puts a whole new layer on things and thus those «clobber passages» can't possible be about consenting and committed homosexual unions because that wouldn't have crossed the minds of the authors based on their context.

His point, if we read him aright, is that Americans prefer homosexual unions over heterosexual.

We will then conclude by returning to the issue of legalising homosexual unions.

If the union between man and woman has strayed further and further from legal forms, and if homosexual unions are perceived more and more as enjoying the same standing as marriage, then we are truly facing a dissolution of the image of humankind bearing consequences that can only be extremely grave.

He insisted that it be abandoned in favor of a «revisionist» view based on the state's interest in increasing «maximal experiential union» and therefore in approving homosexual unions.

Blair omits the topic altogether, while Scanzoni and Mollenkott add only a brief postscript to their discussion, admitting that «for many Christians, the biggest barrier to accepting the possibility of homosexual unions pertains to an understanding of the creation accounts in chapters l, 2, and 5 of Genesis and in Jesus» commentary on them in Matthew, chapter 19.

There are many incomplete families, not to speak of various homosexual unions, which are equated with the family.

In a blog post entitled, «The Tornado, The Lutherans, and Homosexuality,» Piper confidently proclaims that the tornado that hit downtown Minneapolis yesterday was a result of divine judgment on a group of Lutherans meeting in a local church to discuss, among other things, a «social statement» that could make it easier for the church to accept homosexual unions.

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

What will it mean for homosexual unions (or heterosexual ones, in our difficult times) to «keep the sabbath»?

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

«Legal recognition of homosexual unions», it said, «would obscure certain basic moral values and cause a devaluation of the institution of marriage.»

It will be recalled that Mr. Rooney incurred the wrath of homosexual activists when he said on the program that «homosexual union» «along with too much alcohol, too much food, drugs, and cigarettes» is «known to lead quite often to premature death.»

Needless to say, such an understanding of love also involves life - long monogamous fidelity andrules out homosexual unions.

If and when the church moves toward such liturgical recognition, it should also work for legal recognition of homosexual unions, involving such matters as tax laws and inheritance rights.

«Among the many errors and ambiguities of this book,» concludes the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, «are its positions on masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions, the indissolubility of marriage and the problem of divorce and remarriage.»

«Among the many errors and ambiguities in this book are its positions on masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions, the indissolubility of marriage and the problem of divorce and remarriage,» the congregation's five - page «Notification» said.

In Cardinal Sarah's judgement, the family in the West faces «subjectivist disintegration» through easy divorce, abortion, homosexual unions and euthanasia.

In this case, a «blessing» would signify an encouragement of homosexual unions.

In such cases, the Constitutional Court, notably and repeatedly called for a juridical recognition of the relevant rights and duties of homosexual unions (see, inter alia, paragraph 16 above), a measure which could only be put in place by Parliament.