Sentences with phrase «identity as a homosexual»

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One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

This becomes thornier yet for those who discern in themselves a «homosexual orientation,» as they adopt an identity distinguished essentially by a set of genital sexual desires that can not morally be fulfilled.

The differentiation of homosexual orientation from gender identity (for females as well as males) has been increasingly recognized, and a highly competent summing up is available in Man and Woman: Boy and Girl, by John Money and Anke A. Ehrhardt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).

It reads this way: «If your son or daughter is an adolescent, it is possible that he or she may be experimenting with some homosexual behaviors as part of the process of coming to terms with sexual identity.

Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

While most people indeed have a heterosexual orientation and identify with a single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with male / female, masculine / feminine, heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.

First, it fails to mention that the Church «refuses to consider the person as a «heterosexual» or a «homosexual» and insists that every person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and, by grace, his child and heir to eternal life» (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, para. homosexual» and insists that every person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and, by grace, his child and heir to eternal life» (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, para. Homosexual Persons, para. 16, 1986).

He is homosexual and undertook this project as a way to understand why his parents didn't do a better job of accepting and nurturing his own «identity.»

Social conservatives have been outraged by legislation to recognise transgender people's new identities and to sanction homosexual partnerships, deemed by the Government as necessary under the HRA or the human rights agenda more widely.

As sexual identity is fluid and develops through time, these people are somewhat more prone to become homosexuals according to some studies.

This is striking, as the French measure targets both groups of homosexuals and bisexual men, and the whole range of fluid identities including straight - men - occasionally - engaging - in - gay - sex.

The limitations of this group identity is directly linked to the prohibition of homosexual acts, which are considered criminal by the respective Member States, as proscribed in Article 10 (1)(d)[10], read in line with Article 2 (c) of the Directive.