Sentences with phrase «make homosexuality»

Did you not know that the FRC helped fund and highly supported the Uganda bill to make homosexuality punishable by death?

Now, I don't want to downplay how tough it is to be gay in America, but when our county commission voted to make homosexuality illegal --(I know; crazy, right?)

You can disparage the Supreme Court justices all you want and it will not change the fact that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in the United State of America meaning that it is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

It is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

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.»

It is precisely the emergence of gay liberation as a social movement determined to restructure society's laws and mores that has made homosexuality a subject of such intense controversy in our time.

For a gay is not simply a homosexual; he is someone who has made homosexuality the basis of an entire personality and outlook - morals, politics, and social relations.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

Laws making homosexuality punishable by jail time in Uganda, and lack of property rights for women in India and the Middle East contribute to the AIDS epidemic by leaving people vulnerable to the disease without the legal standing to seek help, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly at the ceremony.

«As young LGBT elected officials of color, the only two in New York State, we are horrified by Councilmember Cabrera's tribute to the Ugandan government, which has made homosexuality a capital crime punishable by lifetime imprisonment, and until recently, death,» their statement read.

So to find out what makes homosexuality persist, Rice and colleagues began a comprehensive survey of the literature.

In the same way, Pomeranz says our society didn't start rallying around HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment, and care until laws that made homosexuality illegal were overturned.

His realism, politics, and personal experience must all contribute to making his homosexuality more literal than in most postwar American art.

Not exact matches

Such an admission makes clear that more is at stake on this issue than a new moral judgment of homosexuality.

But, we also criticize people who adhere to the dogma — of Christianity, of Islam, of Hindu tradition — when the actions are far removed from what the «policies» of the respective texts dictate (e.g. love thy neighbor, but act badly to others, specifically non-Christians *), or when the «policies» are adhered to VERY closely and make no sense in today's day and age (e.g. homosexuality is a sin).

One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.

At that point, it was about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»

As a gay Christian, however, I was concerned by the way Williamson freighted in the idea of homosexuality as a choice» hence subject to the same kind of moral decision - making as drug use or stealing.

It makes perfect if unfortunate sense, then, that the Anglicans are today imploding over the issue of homosexuality.

Gay rights groups have expressed outrage over comments made by a senior Vatican official linking homosexuality to child abuse.

You climb on me for throwing back the same arguement that Marcel makes for homosexuality that he used to try and make his point.

Fury has been the target of furious rage from the politically correct establishment, after making some eyebrow - raising comments about women, homosexuality and his Christian faith.

A very convincing case can be made that what we have translated as homosexuality in our modern translations in no way speaks of what was understood by the original audience.

The founder of Oasis has a track record of making statements which rile many of those who self - identify as evangelicals (see Chalke's past comments on the atonement, the Bible and homosexuality).

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-.

Jewish - Christian rejection of homosexuality can not be, as some claim, a matter of «cultural conditioning,» since on this question it is obvious that Jews and Christians made such a determined, and successful, effort to resist the influence of surrounding cultures.

Homosexuality has required him to nurture his faith and examine his psyche, and his quest for faithfulness makes the book a significant piece of Christian spiritual literature.

The speaker in the cartoon is assuming that if homsexuals are made so by environmental factors, then all humans must be born neutral and their sexuality, in either direction, is shaped by the environment; when in fact one could also argue (and I believe the argument actually is) that humans are born hetero by default and shifted to homosexuality be environmental factors.

This is why I think Rob Bell's one minute affirmation of homosexuality makes sense, and why I think you can use this to answer similar questions regarding similar issues:

This would not end disagreements about homosexuality and the nature of Biblical authority, but it might provide a context in which these disagreements could be less threatening and Methodists might be more willing to make room for differences.

Secondly, it means that we vastly underestimate the problem of clerical homosexuality: this makes us vulnerable to politically correct rubbish about «homophobia», and encourages a desire to be thought enlightened about the problems of «gay men».

Brownson's conservative approach to Scripture will win over many skeptical readers, and his book should be required reading for anyone who wants to make an informed judgment about the Bible and homosexuality.

I've gone through such a difficult, isolated time as the Christians around me believe things that make me so angry — like gays are sinning and that homosexuality is the worst thing for our society and is accelerating us towards the end times and that if we support gay people we are deeply deceived and can fall away from the faith.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Vince Cable says he «strongly disagrees» with comments made by his predecessor about 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.

After «Duck Dynasty» star Phil Robertson made crude and controversial statements to GQ Magazine regarding homosexuality and race and was subsequently (and temporarily) suspended from A&E, it was disheartening to see so many evangelicals publicly defend him.

Advocating homosexuality and a gay lifestyle can be very damaging to a congregation and the pastor would have to make the call on whether to ask the person or persons to leave... or not.

He says his ears would perk up when he heard James Dobson talking about homosexuality on the radio, but the only response from famous Christian leaders centered around reparative therapy, which required «correcting» mistakes made by bad parenting or from sexual abuse in the past.

The rarity with which Paul discusses any form of same - sex behavior and the ambiguity in references attributed to him make it extremely unsound to conclude any sure position in the New Testament on homosexuality, especially in the context of loving, responsible relationships.

If the non-believer who is proud, fully desiring, and un-receptive of practicing their sin of homosexuality and they love being around the believer then that would make me question what's wrong with that believer because the scripture says; «Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted — 2 Timothy 3:12, No proudly practicing sinner of any kind will stay with a believer very long just ask Liz

The fact that people continue to suggest otherwise and perpetuate this idea that homosexuality is wrong and attempting to make outcasts of people who identify as gay is unbelievably disgusting and frightening and old - fashioned.

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.

Maybe this is why I am so against this push by the gay activists to make life even more confusing for kids: Lets be really clear: nearly every country on Earth has outlawed homosexuality in its not too distant past, and most of them won't allow such silly games as SSM.

Why would an omniscient, benevolent god make this whole issue (homosexuality) so confusing?

A number of tennis players are calling for an Australian stadium named after a tennis legend turned Christian pastor to be renamed following fresh comments she made about homosexuality.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

How these positions are more absolutist and doctrinaire than his own commitment to the approval of homosexuality, women priests, and married priests is, as per usual, not made clear.

Therefore, with the publication of this article, I am making my first detailed public statement in ten years on the issue of homosexuality.

A Christian excluded from Sheffield University after being accused of making «derogatory» comments regarding homosexuality is waiting to learn whether his High Court battle has been successful.

But there is general agreement that being «honest» about one's homosexuality, which means making a public issue of it, secures one a position in solidarity with the oppressed and their agenda of radical change.