Sentences with phrase «like same sex»

Furthermore, in all schools parents currently have the right to opt their children out of SRE, but the report suggests that the Government is now mulling over whether this «right of withdrawal» could be removed, and that «faith» schools, some of which have opposed teaching about issues like same sex relationships and the use of contraception, will also be subject to the new requirements.

In the first two years of his term, his priority items have included fiscally conservative measures favored by Republicans, as well as more liberal items like same sex marriage, which was approved mostly by Democratic senators, with the help of just four GOP votes.

Not exact matches

But it was Starbucks — a company that has often taken risky stands on issues like race, immigration and same - sex marriage — who gave the episode a search - optimized villain.

I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex individuals who are trying to figure out, like all of us, what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God and yet have a whole intact personal identity which can include same - sex attraction.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it would probably have been harder on people if she initially came to our church in a same - sex relationship.

And should the Supreme Court be unwise enough to impose same - sex marriage on the whole country, the decision will be greeted not like Loving v. Virginia (overturning antimiscegenation laws in 1967), as an achievement of obvious justice, but like Roe v. Wade, with a tireless movement dedicated to overturning its obvious injustice, and a reinvigorated effort to pass a federal marriage amendment.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

Is opposition to same - sex marriage at all like opposition to interracial marriage?

And although I have argued that moral reasoning under general concepts like «liberty» is a very uncertain business, we can still note that Texas presented a case of criminalizing only same - sex private behavior.

We can apply the same principle to any other action we like including sex.

I think about the teacher who was kind and encouraging to me when I was a teenager in need of encouragement and would like to know how her multi-decades-long loving committed monogamous relationship with her same sex partner is remotely bad for society or bad for them.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

Last school year, 40 of the 321 colleges in California that were eligible for Cal Grants had policies the bill would prevent, like requiring biological bathroom use or preventing same - sex relationships.

[8] e.g. Frank McAveetyMSP, Adoption and Children (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Evidence Session 7 June 2006 gave the «perfect example» of a woman in a long - term same - sex relationship, who herself was adopted: ``... the woman is in a stable relationship, understands what it is like to bring up children in difficult circumstances, cares passionately and possesses moral values that are as strong as those of anyone around this table.

President Barack Obama's support of same - sex marriage, like blood in the water, has conservative sharks circling for a kill.

Just like being straight and having sex with someone of the opposite sex are not one and the same thing.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Nevertheless, their embrace of a gay identity (like their claim that they are oriented to the same sex) seems, on my reading, counter to the truth of man and therefore an obstacle to authentic self - knowledge.

If that was the answer like your trying to make it out to be, there should be few problems from heterosexual homes, my experience is most of the problems come from those homes.The problem isn't same sex parents it's something very different.

The main reason people like Coontz back same - sex marriage, according to Blankenhorn and Fox - Genovese, is that they see it as another way to undermine marriage.

Increasingly, we've seen people like us — Christian bakers, florists, and photographers — targeted, maligned, and harassed for choosing not to use our creative talents and speech in service of same - sex weddings.

Given our limited understanding of the exact meaning of these words, it seems like it might be better to err on the side of caution and not rely exclusively on them to condemn or support same - sex relationships.

It is another for some African Christians to argue that their positions on homosexuality are wholly indigenous and that Western forces are practicing a new kind of colonialism in arguing for the legitimacy of same - sex relationships, especially when we hear echoes of Western missionary positions on homosexuality and see Western Evangelicals like Scott Lively actively stirring up hatred against homosexuals in African countries.

If one can get past the oft - repeated triumphalism over the ELCA's 2009 decision to bless same - sex relationships, there is a great deal to like in this book.

The answer is in the Facebook and website comments on topics like Black Lives Matter, The Wall, Muslims, Same Sex marriage.

The lock is a good thing if you're a church leader who doesn't want to marry same - sex couples, but if you're among the minority of CofE vicars who would like the right to marry gay couples, you're stuck, because it's illegal.

Justin said he combed through multiple books and commentaries, struggling to discern what, if anything, the Bible said about people like him — people who did no wish or plan to be gay, people who couldn't change their same - sex attraction through prayer or counseling, people who wanted to faithfully follow Jesus no matter what.

From Matt: Jennifer, I have had the pleasure of interacting with a few Christian musicians through the years that have gone public with their same sex partnerships - like Sean Doty and Ric Alba - as well a few insiders in the CCM business.

Proponents of same - sex marriage hold that societal change is necessary to treat others as we would like to be treated, regardless of our views of morality and sin.

Some of the most humane and beautiful Christian writing I've read in recent years has come from same - sex - marriage advocates like the Episcopalian Eugene Rogers and the British feminist theologian Sarah Coakley.

Within a decade — I may be too optimistic to suggest as long as a decade — denominations like the ELCA will declare a normative standard that their pastors must perform same - sex marriages.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

And just because we believe in a marriage of mutuality doesn't mean we also don't need a few tools in our toolbox for things like conflict resolution, finances, sex, romance, aging, navigating crisis or change, all of that same stuff because hello, we're all people with real stuff to deal with and marriage can be hard sometimes no matter what your theology is.

Younger Christians are weary of pitched cultural battles and are longing for the «real Jesus» — a Jesus who talks more about washing feet and feeding the poor than flashpoint issues like same - sex marriage and the sanctity of life.

But the feeling is not only that, God made the women body to adapt to the men body, like a puzzle, if you force a piece to enter it will distort the image right it is the same things for your body, sex does not only mean baby, but it is only when you join with a compatible body that it is not a sin, God is the best doctor because he made your body, only he know the result in your body and he is also your Father, who's father do not want this child healthy or happy, or better the night thinks even if it is not your fault «why does my child as to suffer all this, and walk in the difficult road».

It seems that when teams of doorstep canvassers are sent out to chat with thousands of residents about same - sex marriage, swift and durable change occurs in the opinions on that issue held by subjects who chatted with a gay canvasser whose script told him to say that he'd really like to get married but the law won't allow it.

Other students are concerned about some of the issues mentioned in the Washington Post article like the extension of benefits to same sex partners, or the way that the university dealt with the Health and Human Services mandate.

Since these theoretical victims, if they're remembered at all, are counterbalanced in young people's minds by the real victims of historic anti-gay violence and by today's gays and lesbians who would like to get married, same - sex marriage seems to be a no - brainer.

You can't read a memoir like Giannone's and easily draw evidence that having a long - time sexual partner of the same sex diminishes one's life.

Wouldn't they suggest that Paul, like so many who crudely argue the case today, condemned same - sex behavior because the «parts don't fit?»

According to Philo, the great crime of male same - sex behavior — pederasty, specifically — was that males would «suffer the affliction of being treated like a women» which Philo referred to as «the greatest of evils, unmanliness and effeminacy.»

As the Nazis willfully altered the meaning of German words for ideological reasons, and the Soviet Communists altered the meaning of Russian words (or coined expressions like «former persons) for ideological reasons, so too the advocates of assisted suicide want to banish words like «suicide» and «killing» from discussions of the subject in order to gain an ideological advantage, and same - sex «marriage» advocates want to change the meaning of «marriage» for ideological reasons.

And like Smith in Washington, plenty of black ministers talked about distinguishing between opposition to same - sex marriage and views about Obama.

Even though millennials feel more open to things like pre-marital sex and same - sex marriage than their older siblings and parents and grandparents, they still feel conflicted about abortion.»

But some of the criticism centered on a four - question quiz that featured questions like «Do you support same - sex relationships?»

Like Shakespeare and the Book of Genesis, Alan Ball has a master's gift for getting sex and death, the good laugh and the good cry, the godsend and god - awful, the ridiculous and sublime, all in the same scene.

As part of this conversation, I'd like to invite you to participate in a special discussion group here on the blog around Matthew Vines» book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same - Sex Relationships.

From Joshua: Do you ever feel like your personal struggles and decisions are being used as a tool by those on one side or the other in the debates concerning same sex relationships, and if so, what would you want those people using your decisions to advance their causes to know or consider?

«Same - sex attracted people will be sharing their stories in order to help them become disciple - like and maintain living a celibate life,» he said.

As far as I can tell from its website, Marble is a mainline, Protestant congregation, committed to progressive causes like diversity and same - sex marriage.