The majority did not even mention the ten - year - old decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, which had held, in keeping with long - standing constitutional understanding, that a state may
make homosexual conduct a criminal offense.
The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that
make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.
While many LGBT sympathizers argue that gender is a social construct, gays and lesbians clearly think the gender of their partner matters ¯ it's what
makes them homosexual.
And there is a case to be
made that homosexual behaviors hurts individuals and society as a whole even secularly..
Is it Christians who have
made homosexual marriage a «trending» topic in our national dialogue... or is it those who want to normalize and legalize homosexual marriage?
since God
made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.
since God
made homosexuals, The article you cite and Biblical writers indicate that it is not natural - «what is to be expected» — Your own discussion has indicated that this is not true.
Your statement of «There is no evidence that God
made homosexuals.»
Daniel said: «Does God
make homosexuals or does he just create male and female?
Does God
make homosexuals or does he just create male and female?
Like I said, it is like
making a homosexual joke the fits stereotypes and claiming that you purpose is to show how stupid homosexual bigotry is.
No one is
making a homosexual or a heterosexual have sex.
The Court moved a long way toward
making homosexual conduct a constitutional right, adopted the radical feminist view that men and women are essentially identical, continued to view the First Amendment as a protection of self - gratification rather than of the free articulation of ideas, and overturned two hundred years of history to hold that political patronage is unconstitutional.
In this week's News & Analysis section, Michael Balter reported on legislation signed into law in Uganda last week that
makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 14 years in prison; homosexual acts involving minors could draw a lifetime sentence.
Not exact matches
Apparently, Degrassi, another show whose advertisers the group targets, «promotes the transgender and
homosexual lifestyles and other inappropriate behavior to an audience
made up of almost exclusively teens and children.»
He appears to have used the Thompsons» photos to manufacture a Facebook page using images of the older son that
made him appear to be
homosexual, hoping to engage the young man online.
Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction
homosexual unions and in general
make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.
It only
makes it all the more urgent for young people to be told the truth that sexual promiscuity, whether
homosexual or heterosexual, may endanger their lives, that condoms are by no means a foolproof way to avoid that risk, and that chastity is the best defense.
As this story got some play, even at the highest levels of the movie business to
make it into a feature (we were signed to an option by the guys who did Philadelphia and Silence of the Lambs), one of the fears we had was that someone would turn Lonnie into a
homosexual hero (like Harvey Milk).
On the one hand, Virtually Normal presents a very sanitized picture of male
homosexual life; there are no details of the gay subculture to repel heterosexual readers and
make them less amenable to Sullivan's political proposals.
The influence of gay marriage, Sullivan believes, would not only
make it easier to grow up gay, but would actually change how adult
homosexuals conduct their lives.
It is naturally obvious that human sexual organs are
made for heterosexual penetration — they «fit» — and that
homosexual sex (for Reilly, this is embodied especially in anal penetration) is a mis - fit.
When we have those nuts at Westboro Baptist picketing soldier's funerals, spitting on
homosexuals, and
making videos about how Santa is a fag and will send you to hell, we catch a glimpse of what happens when abhorrence of evil combined with confrontation consumes and destroys love, catapulting them into realms of hatred that Jesus would fall down weeping at the sight of.
is a convincing and remarkably candid argument that the case for
homosexual relations must be
made against Scripture and the Christian tradition.
As the story
makes clear, it is not actually the teenagers who are opening up the subject as it is organizations run by adults who want to «help» teenagers identify themselves as
homosexual.
I love the argument he
makes, even while I am a progressive Christian who accepts
homosexuals as equals in the eyes of God.
It clearly matters for the
homosexual couple: They want to have their own kid, and they'll use «female sperm» or «male eggs» to
make it happen.
There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions of
homosexual behavior
make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»
«Good versus Evil: it is that simple,» declared a businessman's letter urging Bloomington citizens «to prayerfully
make it a matter of immediate personal decision: to shun the sodomites and their supporters, to use every lawful device to eliminate
homosexual activity in this area, and to rededicate our community to standards set forth by God.»
Schwoyer
made the point that many people think of
homosexuals as concerned only with lust.
There's such a tendency among Christians to lump all
homosexuals together as a group of faceless, nameless «perverts» and to
make statements not rooted in fact.
This discussion began with me commenting on the sense that there is something, I'm not sure what, problematic about the position that those with
homosexual desires are not to practice, and that
makes everything okay.
So you could say environment does
make some men
homosexual who maybe weren't born that way.
A Netherlands pastor
makes the point even more strongly by urging Christian moralists to «develop a morality for homosexuality in consultation with
homosexual people» (The Sexual Revolution, by J. Rinzema [Eerdmans, 1974]-RRB-.
The belief that the cartoon is lampooning is that
homosexuals are
made so by their environment; that is correct; but it does so by implying that this belief necessarily implies that heterosexuals are also
made so by their environment.
The author of the review thinks this book sinks under its own weight, for its author
makes no secret of his loathing of the whole
homosexual community, quoting every passage in the bible that can even remotely be translated against them, often twisting passages to say what they do not mean.
«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be
made between heterosexual and
homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.
Believing that
homosexuals are
made so by environment in no way implies that heterosexuals are
made so by their environment.
When such a claim is
made and when
homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»
You have thus far completely refused all questions given to you in attempts to discuss the issue, have
made absolutely zero effort to prove your assertion that
homosexual activity is sinful, and have chosen instead to fall back on theatrical bravado.
I therefore conclude that you
make equal argumentation against second marriages (as compared to
homosexual marriage).
The Patheos site does not show replies... somehow, my inbox shows that you are asking Gary to
make a scriptural case for one of two items: — that God
makes people gay; and / or — that God blesses
homosexual behavior.
They have
made themselves especially visible by leading the attack on
homosexual activity.
I read two articles last year (which I didn't document, like you, thinking it was out of the question) about pedophiles
making the exact same argument as the present day argument that
homosexuals have taken from the cause of the Black people; «they were born that way.»
God ALSO
made some intersexual, some asexual, some bi-sexual, and some
homosexual.
having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word
made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he loves
homosexuals as much as heterosexuals.
If a
homosexual person is so
made that an intimate loving relationship is possible only with a member of the same sex, on what basis can this experience of love be declared sinful?
I don't believe that God specifically and arbitrarily
made Jack and Jill
homosexual, while
making John and Jane Straight.
I have read every widely available case
made for the position that
homosexual behavior is not a sin or that committed
homosexuals are not what the bible is talking about.
It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that
homosexual persons
make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.