Sentences with phrase «more gay people»

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Mr Bradshaw, one of three gay men currently in the cabinet, made the comments as a new poll suggested more gay people were turning to the Tories.

Yet she emphasised the importance of «the issue about how you get people into Parliament in the first place, and to get more gay people to come forward and stand as candidates and councillors,» and said the Labour Party is working on this, particularly LGBT Labour.

If distant fathers and overbearing others made people gay, there would be far more gay people in American society than there are.

What he discovered as he got to know more gay people was this: «The one big thing the gays and the Christians had in common was that they both believed in a Gays - vs.

Not exact matches

Pamela Post, head of original programming at Viacom - owned Logo, which makes content for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender viewers, praised Caitlyn Jenner as humanizing transgender people and making it more possible to air series like Becoming Us on mainstream television.

Yet a day after Mateen killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others in a gay nightclub, President Barack Obama and FBI director James Comey said Monday that he was likely inspired by foreign terrorist groups.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

We are people with different bodies, gender expressions, faiths, sexualities, class backgrounds, abilities and so much more,» Gay says.

«[W] orkplace diversity proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions filed so far this year.»

Equality Florida, the largest LGBT rights group in the state, posted the GoFundMe fundraiser shortly after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay club in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history Sunday morning.

Far more extensive change to marriage laws would be necessary to allow polygamy — in no other country where equal marriage for gay people exists has this come up.

I have one more question, and it may be a very silly and naive question but I have to ask — why would a gay person want to be a part of a faith that is bulging at the seems with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

I have read a lot on this issue (and am going to be doing some more) and have interacted with many gay people (many friends that are gay)... these interactions all helped me to learn a lot I was not told in that version of the faith.

That's more integrity and critical thinking than most people against gay marriage demonstrate.

As for gays and lesbians, I like these convo's — we need more of them for the common person out there that does not get to here all aspects of this dialogue (it's very enlightening).

Bob: «I have one more question, and it may be a very silly and naive question but I have to ask — why would a gay person want to be a part of a faith that is bulging at the seems with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?»

He and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, made a name for themselves in the 1990s by protesting at the funerals of gay people who died of AIDS and, more recently, by protesting at the funerals of military officers.

Today with exposure and education it is like smoking... people aren't smoking like they used to and gays are more accepted.

The fact that most times people can't tell who's gay just makes people feel more paranoid and fearful (those gays are everywhere — it's all part of their conspiracy) so they're even more hateful.

We or us would have to pay the health care cost of the gay couples for government jobs and in private sector more company profits go to a non-worker which leave less for the people who actually work for the company.

Pope Francis has called the Church to love and respect gay and transgender people, but criticised teaching... More

I will not have the religious right tell me Gay people are an abomination no more than I will have an Athiest tell me I am deluded or unintelligent.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

Gay people have suffered enough without this crazy group opening up another can of worms with more hate, intolerance, and vitriolic comments.

It seems to me that the right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their economic platform is to feed people's greed.

He has more than a little sympathy for people in my shoes (gay and celibate), but as we talked, he said something to the effect of, «This is an incredibly frustrating conversation to keep having in the church.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

A more subtle way that we fail gay people is silence.

I don't like the insults here and calling of names in a effort to intimidate, I don't want gay marriage and God is real, alive and has been more faithful to me and helped me more than any person.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

The vast majority of people under 35 consider Christian resistance to gay marriage as «wrong and wicked»... More

Even more importantly, let us never use the word «gay» in reference to a homosexual person.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

Why is it that people who were not created as a gay person pretend that they know more than those of us that are?

Perhaps nowhere has the storyline seemed more clear - cut than with regard to the church's treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their relationships.

Some people care more about abortion vs. gay vs. immigrants vs public assistance vs. etc. etc..

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

Almost 9 out of 10 Americans know someone who is gay or lesbian (87 %), and those people are more likely to say homosexuality is morally acceptable (19 %) than those who don't have a homosexual friend or family member (3 %).

An additional, and grossly mistaken, assumption of the activists was that the more people learned about gays and homosexuality the more approving they would become.

Being gay is a sin that folks need to repent, ask Jesus for forgiveness, ask Him that they can get closer to Him, then of course, sin no more (this usually happens when the person decides on abstinence as their choice in life).

I find this position to be a bit more believable than the position that people would consciously choose to be gay.

OK bad analogy, but that dog had no more of a choice being born that way than a gay person has.

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

I should think that two gay people getting married would not affect one's life any more than two hetero people getting married would.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.