Sentences with phrase «homosexuality is an abomination»

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.

Some interpreters think that all the texts about homosexuality point to the same concept, namely that homosexuality is an abomination.

That is why the Bible offers up man / woman marriage and speaks of how homosexuality is an abomination in the sight of the Lord.

Every Jewish child knows that homosexuality is an abomination, condemned in the Torah.

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.»

Not exact matches

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

I'd heard of him for years and several years ago I heard my own pastor preach a message on him condemning homosexuality... saying that his death from AIDS was God's punishment for his «abomination» and «backsliding».

The scriptural case that homosexuality is a sinful abomination to God is based on bad translation and faulty exegesis.

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?)

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.

One of the leaders of Common Cause is Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, who readily uses the word abomination in reference to homosexuality.

homosexuality, transgenders and lesbianism is an abomination against God, this crosses out his creation more like a slap in the face.

One sect calls homosexuality an abomination while the next one in the same denomination is already performing gay marriage.

Leviticus on homosexuality: uses the same word (abomination) that is used for eating shellfish and wearing clothing woven of different materials.

A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Leviticus 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality.

In 1992 he campaigned for a Colorado anti-gay-rights amendment, calling homosexuality «an abomination against almighty God» (Promise Keepers» official position is that homosexuality is a sin which «violates God's design».).

Also why must the bible be read so litteraly when you only follow it so litteraly when the purpose is discrimatory or self serving (homosexuality, womens rights, abortion) but you do nt take it litterally in saying that wearing blended fabrics or trimming your beard is an abomination.

One sect calls homosexuality an abomination while the next one (over four million members) in the same denomination is already performing gay marriage.

He said: «It is unfortunate that people have become so liberal that they will want to liberalise Christianity... even priests are approving of homosexuality and allowing a man and a man [to] marry, a woman and a woman [to] marry and these are manifest abominations.»

Police are set to investigate comments by Iris Robertson, a Northern Irish DUP MP, after she called homosexuality an «abomination».

Funny how people are ok with kids reading or looking at violence, but say anything about Gays or Homosexuality and all of a sudden the world is an abomination.

Her mother calls her homosexuality an «abomination,» and in Nigeria being discovered to be a homosexual can lead to prison or even death (see «Beyond the Book»).