Sentences with phrase «law about homosexuality»

Perhaps Herbert's conditions are met in Uganda, or will be if that law about homosexuality passes so merely advocating a change of the law makes one guilty.

Regardless, we are not even under the law according to Judaism — we follow the Noahide ideals... and there is no Noahide law about homosexuality (we may use the Torahnic ideals as a guide — which is basically what I am doing above).

Not exact matches

This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.

Had a religious leader, for example, cornered Jesus about a certain person who was practicing homosexuality, Jesus might have first deferred to the letter of God's law.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

When the Law of Love becomes the measure of whether or not an act sinful, the issue is no longer about sexual orientation, hetero or homosexuality; but whether the act is one of expressing love or exercising power / control over another.

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

In fact, I've been taught that homosexuality is just about the worst kind of sin that there is, one we ought to protest against and make laws about.

Everything flows from the opening sentence of the book, an expansion of a 2010 article from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: «What we have come to call the gay marriage debate is not directly about homosexuality, but about marriage.»

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

The phrase, «respecting the laws of nature and of nature's God» is widely seen as being a reference to homosexuality, and many are quite upset about that (Google the phrase if you are interested).

He contends that laws about keeping kosher, for example, do not apply to Christians, while commandments about homosexuality do.

How about this one, since you KNOW what a pedophile is, and you KNOW what a practicing homosexual is (though you can't seem to find the words), and you KNOW that both are sinful, then you must also KNOW that since pedophilia is against the law, then the practice of homosexuality should also be against the law.

A number of concerns have been raised about holding the tournament in the Middle Eastern country due to the desert heat, it's laws on homosexuality and the treatment of the workers currently building the stadia, amongst other reasons.

It's what football sites are all about... Discussing homosexuality, redskins name,, hiring practices, guy kicking his dog in the elevator, gun laws..

I grew up in England; I went to school as a young boy in England and I grew up at a time in England when homosexuality was banned there, it was illegal and I lived in the period when British politicians thought it was anathema to think about changing the law and suddenly the activities of individuals, of groups, a certain awareness, a certain development grew and grew and grew stronger and it forced a change in law.

While Russian officials say the law is meant to protect children and not discriminate against gays, it appears to assume that children can be converted to homosexuality by hearing about it.

Amnesty International condemns adoption of homophobic legislation in Lithuania: «The law classifies public information about homosexuality and bisexuality alongside material that portrays physical or psychological violence and the display of dead or mutilated bodies.

«I grew up at a time in England where homosexuality was banned, it was illegal and I lived in a period where British politicians thought it was anathema to even think about changing the law and then suddenly, the activities of individuals and groups... grew and grew stronger and enforced the change in the law.»

The Divisional Court may find that there is in law at least a third choice: continue to believe what it will (the part about homosexuality being immoral), and continue to provide the public service as an expression of its beliefs (the part about ministering to the needy) but do not require employees providing a public service to conform to those beliefs.

Justin Patten of the Human Law blog writes about the London case of a former banker at HSBC who is seeking a multimillion - dollar award in a sex bias claim involving homosexuality.

While President Vladimir Putin has issued statements indicating that there will be no discrimination for religion, sexuality, or gender, Russia does have a current law on their books that criminalises any positive statements about homosexuality made to children and adolescents.