Sentences with phrase «homosexuality as an abomination»
When First Minister Peter Robinson of Northern Ireland defended his wife, Iris, after she described homosexuality as an abomination and advised a gay man it could be «cured» by psychotherapy, he responded, «It wasn't Iris Robinson who determined that homosexuality was an abomination, it was the Almighty.»
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These range from the authoritarian «prohibitionists,» who consider homosexuality an abomination warranting legal punishment, to the anarchistic «liberationists,» who reject the very distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality as merely semantics.
Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to homosexuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)
Webb points to the oft - quoted passage in Leviticus 18 which condemns homosexuality as «an abomination,» and the highly negative references to homosexuality in the Pauline epistles.
We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)
From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.
Even if homosexuality is an abomination / sin, surely, to be consistent, a politician who fails to keep his election promises should be equally reviled as lying is also called abomination / sin.
Ngole indicated his opposition to homosexuality when he quoted Leviticus 20:13 - which reads: «If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination» - during a debate on Facebook.
Moses also called homosexuality an «abomination» and the Apostle Paul labeled it as «vile affections.»
Some people cite Old Testament scriptures as condemning homosexuality, such as Leviticus 18:22 - «If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.»