Sentences with phrase «homosexuality into»

Pope Francis» arguments run the gamut from the expected (he's especially interested in the concept of true brotherhood) to the scandalous (he's a strong proponent of the environment, believes that the power of science can go hand and hand with religion, and even talks about welcoming homosexuality into the church).

The leader of National Coalition for Proper Human Rights and Family Values, Moses Foh Amoaning has claimed some same - sex activists at the Flagstaff House are conniving with some diplomats to propagate the idea of homosexuality into the minds of Ghanaians.

As we reflect on that image, we might consider how we make our images of sexuality, heterosexuality, or homosexuality into idols.

To read homosexuality into Sodom or Gibeah reveals more about the reader than it does about the scripture.

Not exact matches

I ask because homosexuality often creeps into the conversation but breaking the speed limit never does.

The horrible thing is... the rejection of homosexuality is what forces the gay person into shame and guilt... which results in suppression of their natural feelings... which results in unhealthy, sinful expressions of those feelings.

My point about the normalcy of homosexuality in ancient Rome and the abnormality we attribute to it today calls into question our ability to interpret Paul's point appropriately.

Carrying a placard which read, «Jesus Gives Peace, Jesus is Alive, Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism, Jesus is Lord,» sixty - nine - year - old street preacher Harry Hammond went into the center of Bournemouth on a Saturday afternoon in 2001.

It's a 2007 missive to Russians suggesting they «criminalize the public advocacy of homosexuality,» i.e., use state power to force gay people into the closet.

And by the perception of many, homosexuality falls into that same category.

These people can't accept that reality because it would mean that they have no reason to oppose homosexuality other than a completely arbitrary rule that divides humanity into two different classes without any real reason to do so.

Don't play into the hands of the enemy: Arguing about Tim Farron's views on homosexuality doesn't help anyone, says Ruth Smith More

CNN: My Take: Why good Catholics are challenging church line on homosexuality Patrick Hornbeck of Fordham University looks into why more Catholics are defying the Vatican on homosexuality, while the Roman Catholic Church has called being gay or lesbian «an objective disorder.»

When you are not capable or not willing to discuss the issue of homosexuality (one of the most troubling and divisive issues facing the church today) on substance, you simply sidestep the valid questions and seek to shame your opponents into submission.

But it is a puzzle why the author judges that believers are culpable for «the mess that we are in» because we bought into the «disease conceptualization of homosexuality.»

Taken on its own terms, read in the original languages, placed back into its historical context, the Bible is ho - hum on homosexuality, unless — as with heterosexuality — injustice and abuse are involved.

It's time to accept a fuller understanding of homosexuality based on new research into language, concepts and customs when these words were written.

My testimony of deliverance from homosexuality has been thrown into my face as a «thank you».

Because children also can't give informed consent, indoctrinating them into religion is far more like bestiality than homosexuality ever will be.

Thus, even those people whom social pressures and individual circumstances have not steered into homosexuality are now tempted by appeals to their animal natures, which are not differentiated from their spiritual natures in our contemporary society.

So... when the Holy Spirit gave inspiration to the Apostle Paul in Roman 1:26 - 28 to write; «For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (Lesbianism): and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with me working that which is unseemly (Homosexuality), and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

And yet I have found myself regularly breaking into a cold sweat at the thought of engaging in dialogue with fellow Presbyterians about homosexuality.

Rev Barry Trayorn who worked as a gardener, but volunteered in the chapel, fell into trouble after delivering a talk to prisoners about homosexuality and sin.

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

What is perhaps most frustrating about engaging in such conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and hell, gender roles, homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we question one another's commitment to Scripture.

When we ask the latter question realistically, we must take into account the strong prejudice against homosexuality and the persecution of homosexuals.

if homosexuality is accepted into heaven then no one who commits any other sin should have to ever repent.....

Without getting into the debate of homosexuality, we have become an extremely selfish, narcissistic society that demands we be «treated fairly».

Moving forward with the series, I'd like to spend just a few more weeks focusing on the specific topic of homosexuality, before we move into other aspects of human sexuality, like singleness, «purity,» sexual ethics, marriage, and so on.

When Justin shared his struggle, they were kind, but tended to turn every conversation into a debate over Scripture and homosexuality.

I came to recognize that being gay was not a choice, so I delved deeply into biblical scholarship and theology to find what the Bible had to say about homosexuality.

Though I tried to overcome homosexuality by counseling, prayer, fasting, binding temptation, sacraments, etc., I finally crashed into clinical depression and my marriage dissolved.

At the Pope's insistence, the bishops did a reset, plunging the Church into renewed debate over divorce and homosexuality and cutting short the conversation that the Pope had earlier invited over famine, persecution and want.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

It was groundbreaking work that began the scientific journey into understanding homosexuality that is still ongoing today.

And it puts into stark, unsettling relief just how out - of - control the evangelical obsession with homosexuality has become.

Without getting into the issue of homosexuality, I understand what you are saying about Christians who «use» God's love as a license to live however they want to live regardless of what God may be speaking into their hearts directly or indirectly.

Abortion, contraception and homosexuality have all been made into boundary - defining issues; they have become the «lines in the sand» for whether one judges others to be Christian or not.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

While People Can Change has never worked with minors and none of us would ever suggest a minor (or anyone) should be forced into anything, it is puzzling to me that you believe in this bizarre caricature of what ministry and healing organizations provide to Christians who struggle with homosexuality.

If I'm writing about homosexuality, for example, I make an effort to consult with LGBT folks ahead of time, and I try to remain especially open to their advice, perspective, and critiques as I venture into territory with which they are much more familiar than I.

Most overt sins usually are secret and private but homosexuality goes into every aspect of society for the reason to spread its perversion in religion, education, politics, Law just to name a few.

But as boys get into their teens, their attachments to one another are stigmatized as their close bonds culturally put their male relationships in close proximity to homosexuality.

Paladino did not disavow his comment that children should not be «brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn't.»

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo's campaign issued a scathing statement slamming his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, for telling Hasidic leaders in Williamsburg today that young people shouldn't be «brainwashed» into thinking homosexuality is a «valid» lifestyle option.

Whittemore noted that Paladino's apology yesterday afternoon came after he had appeared on national TV shows and insisted he had no regrets about telling ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Brooklyn that children shouldn't be «brainwashed» into thinking homosexuality is a «valid» lifestyle option.

And most recently, he said that he doesn't want children to be «brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option,» because, he says, «it isn't.»»

As you'll recall, he took so much heat — even from within his own family and party — for saying children shouldn't be «brainwashed» into believing that homosexuality is a valid lifestyle option that he was forced to apologize.

Presented himself as a «foremost expert» on homosexuality, he began by exploiting Ugandan's fears of child sexual molestation as a prime recruitment tactic into homosexuality.