Sentences with phrase «laws against homosexuality»
It's that Jesus ended the laws against homosexuality along with all those other Old Testament laws like shellfish and beards.
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Thy have found that it is possible to show compassion in recognizing the human aspect of homosexuality and to support laws against discrimination without compromising their theological position.
Conservatives are deeply aggrieved by Supreme Court decisions in the past 30 years that have struck down laws against abortion, laws on homosexuality and certain laws and policies promoting religion in the public square.
It is worth noting that Brazil is considering laws to imprison priests who preach against homosexuality.
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.
The member of the Ugandan Parliament behind a controversial «anti-gay» bill that would call for stiff penalties against homosexuality - including life imprisonment and the death penalty - says that the bill will become law «soon.»
Paul emphatically did not use homosexuality to illustrate the consequences of idolatry in order to have his followers seek to solve the problem by formulating moral laws or commandments against it.
According to you and others, it would be barbaric to make praticing homosexuality against the law again because it is their nature, they are born that way.
By the criteria the scripture sets for us for what is godly life, and by the reasoning scripture asks us to employ, homosexuality can not be described as against God's law.
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.
He was pointing out that the Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality are part of the same law code which condemns many things, such as the eating of pork and the wearing of garments that are woven with two kinds of material.
As such, the majority of people probably do not even realize that homosexuality is against the law.
MOSCOW, August 1 (R - Sport)- Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko warned Thursday that athletes and visitors to the Sochi Olympics will be subject to the country's laws against promoting homosexuality, contradicting a statement from the International Olympic Committee that the government had promised they would be exempt.
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.
The Observer newspaper reported on 15 October 2006 that Kelly had joined the Prime Minister in seeking to exempt churches from new equality laws which would require Christian churches to treat homosexuality with equal validity to heterosexuality, which Kelly felt went against Catholic teaching.
In Ake Green, the court held that a Swedish pastor who preached against homosexuality was not protected by the free speech laws of Sweden, but was protected by the free speech laws of the European Union.
In granting TWU accreditation, the B.C. Law Society is seen to be giving public endorsement to TWU's practice of discriminating against members of the LGTBQ community and, further, granting legitimacy, in the public sphere, to TWU's Christian view that homosexuality is wrong.