Sentences with phrase «more than homosexuality»

All I was saying was that IF you think it is a sin, we should still love and accept LGBT people, just as we love and accept people who lie, eat too much, drink too much, are lazy, are proud, etc, all of which are clearly sins (and are talked about in Scripture way more than homosexuality).

First of all, I don't know any devout Christians who excuse gluttony or divorce or any other sin any more than homosexuality.

The piece discusses more than homosexuality, including «Hebrew Sexual Mores», «The Problem of Authority» and «Judge for Yourselves».

Pride, anger, greed, judgmentalism, and gluttony, for example, are condemned all over the place in Scripture (way more than homosexuality), and yet most Christians are content to live in such destructive lifestyles while they point the finger at homosexuals and call down God's curses upon them.

What else are we afraid of... if it's God... then you need to evaluate much more than homosexuality.

Not exact matches

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

Nathan, I never said homosexuality promotes love... no more than heterosexuality does.

The survey also found more than two thirds of Christians (68 %) said their views about homosexuality had become «more inclusive» in the past decade.

Chudacoff, who throughout his book tends to introduce the theme of homosexuality with hints and surmises rather than data, counters Stott's argument with this: «More recently [actually less recently — in 1985 and 1988] other historians have discovered hints [of homosexual relations].»

A twice - divorced preacher railing against homosexuality is more likely to be perceived as a bigot and hypocrite than as a champion of «traditional values.»

The 1975 Continental Congress on the Family (a nationwide gathering in St. Louis of more than 2,000 evangelicals) issued a statement declaring that «while we acknowledge the Bible teaches homosexuality to be sinful, we recognize that a homosexual orientation can be the result of having been sinned against.»

I think that homosexuality is a much more complicated thing than most people want to admit.

Homosexuality is not a focus at Wheaton more than any other college, said Ryken, but culture places a priority on sex.

This shift intends far more than the normalization of homosexuality.

Is Paul's commentary on homosexuality more absolute than some of his other antiquated, culturally conditioned ideas?

Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.

It's why I have posted this The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be «cured.»

I wonder if perhaps I should write a post entitled «10 Reasons My Opinion About Homosexuality is Cuter Than Your Cat» because I bet that would get more comments than Anne Jackson's post about HaThan Your Cat» because I bet that would get more comments than Anne Jackson's post about Hathan Anne Jackson's post about Haiti.

he American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be «cured.»

More than a third of evangelicals (36 %) in 2014 said homosexuality should be accepted by society, up sharply from a quarter (26 %) in 2007.

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 %).

And more than half of historically black Protestants (51 %) in 2014 also said homosexuality should be accepted, up from two in five (39 %) in 2007.

After all, my Bible talks more about the sins of not caring for the poor and orphans of our communities, about our pride, about idolatry, than it does about homosexuality, yet I can't see a lot of to - scale «truth - telling» on those topics.

To read homosexuality into Sodom or Gibeah reveals more about the reader than it does about the scripture.

No you can't because anything you have posted has been proven to be bogus or outdated information.The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be «cured.»

Because children also can't give informed consent, indoctrinating them into religion is far more like bestiality than homosexuality ever will be.

African - Americans have always viewed male homosexuality as more of a sign of weakness than evil.

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.

In the song, Derek accused Christians of worrying more about homosexuality than poverty.

I'm not sure how the debate on homosexuality would turn out if defined that way, but I believe it would be more edifying than many recent discussions of these matters have been.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

Whenever the word «homosexuality» is mentioned, more than 90 per cent of the listeners or readers will assume that the reference is to males.

There is more evidence to indicate that homosexuality is innate than there is proof of god.

LMAO The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be «cured.»

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Nevertheless, Paul's statements about homosexuality call for a more serious wrestling with the texts than do his ideas about women's hair.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

(Incidentally, since Azumah has singled out the PC (USA), I would point to the various statements that the denomination has made about the problematic ways that sexuality is treated in contemporary society to remind him that there is no more a single «Western perspective» on matters of sexuality than there is a single African perspective on matters of homosexuality.)

These sins get much more attention in Scripture than homosexuality.

Did you know that homosexuality was possibly more widespread and practiced in the days of Jesus than it is today?

And the truth is that the Bible talks way more about these other behaviors than it does about homosexuality.

But Genesis 19 no more condemns all homosexuality, than Judges 19 (in which the town of Gibeah rapes a female concubine all night) condemns all heterosexuality.

At the recent Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission's national conference on «The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will ever do.

I am more than happy to have a discussion about homosexuality AFTER we all take care of the issues that Scripture seems most concerned with.

So Lambda and its allies are quite right to believe that, in getting the government to declare that millennia of classical, Jewish, and Christian teaching on homosexuality is nothing more than prejudice, «gay people have found far more success in the courts than in Congress» — or in any other institution with a measure of accountability to the American people.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

From 1970 to the present, mainline churches have officially been more tolerant than conservative churches of divorce, abortion, gender equality, family pluralism and homosexuality — all changes in keeping with the family modernization process.

If Vatican documents included some mention of these «problems» in future discussions of homosexuality, they would be guaranteed a fairer and more respectful hearing than such pronouncements presently receive from the secular homosexual community and increasingly from the gay and lesbian Catholic community as well.