Sentences with phrase «noncelibate homosexual people»

At the three - week meeting in 2014, one of the bishops» working documents sparked a media firestorm when it included a section called «Welcoming homosexual persons.»

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

Homosexual people will be accepted as equal, full human beings, who have a legitimate claim on every right that both church and society have to offer any of us.

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

There is no way that justice for homosexual people can be compromised any longer.

In my last essay at First Things, I echoed the words of Pope Benedict writing about the pastoral care of the homosexual person by saying, «only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.»

Joseph Bayly, a widely read evangelical author, confesses honestly: «For years I have been troubled by a strict application of the Bible's strong condemnation of homosexuality, and total judgment of the homosexual person....

The other book (Who Walk Alone, by Margaret Evening, 1974) speaks of the gifts, sensitivity and loving natures characterizing many homosexual persons and includes this statement:

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

«Many homosexual people follow Christ, drawn to him by his love and his outstretched arms welcoming all those who turn to him.»

This comes after the majority of the leading Archbishops of the whole global Anglican Communion affirmed in January 2016 that diminishing and criminalising homosexual people is wrong.

John Harvey, a genuine modern - day hero when it comes to genuine care for homosexual persons.

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-.

Many argue that the legislation stipulating the rights of homosexual people not to feel harassed overrides the rights of others to free speech.

[12] «What is at all costs to be avoided is the unfounded and demeaning assumption that the sexual behaviour of homosexual persons is always and totally compulsive and therefore inculpable.»

Chaste homosexual persons poignantly show us the real meaning of our sexuality, and in so doing proclaim the good news that truth is neither autonomous nor heteronomous, but participatory.

Reparative therapy, however, should in no way be presented as a requirement for the homosexual person.

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

Listening to our law in our bodies It is just as inappropriate for the homosexual person to «do what he wants with his body.»

A pastoral approach recognises that desperation is precisely at the heart of the homosexual person's experience.

Why can't two committed homosexual persons have this permanence?

For some homosexual persons, the effort to change can mean years of individual and group therapy, agonized prayers, suicidal depressions, and the constant fear of detection, loss of job and attack by straight men.

It is precisely such a perspective that is needed in current debates on homosexuality and the issue of civil unions for homosexual persons.

Having uncovered the data of the natural law and the data of Revelation, we come full circle and consider again the question of civil unions for homosexual persons.

Note well that the homosexual person, in living chastely, is in a most noble way doing something profoundly positive: by not misusing his sexuality he is respectfully acknowledging that ultimately our generative faculties are not ours to use as we please; the sacred interplay is God's territory wherein we participate, not over which we arbitrate.

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

The homosexual person likewise can profoundly proclaim participatory theonomy: marital friendship is itself a great gift, not a right.

To grant a special set of rights to homosexual persons would work against those real interests that the State has in the marital friendship.

Homosexual persons have, of course, legitimate rights such as the right to work and the right to be treated fairly.

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

The Christ of the churches is certainly bad news for homosexual persons.

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?

As Cobb points out, the Christ of the churches today is bad news for homosexual persons.

It is important, they say, that in every congregation such homosexual persons should find fellow - Christians who sensitively provide friendship and understanding.

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.

No authentic pastoral programme will include organisations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral... All support should be withdrawn from any organisations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely.

«We encourage the Bishops, then, to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses.

This struggle is even wider than the media report, and goes beyond the issues of the divorced and remarried and of pastoral care for homosexual people.

In truth there are many who see this as just dessert for those who, they feel, persecuted homosexual people in times past.

A heterosexual person can not help a homosexual person to develop her or his full personhood, whatever that may mean, if the heterosexual equates homosexuality with sickness or immorality.

Among other things, the Italian Dominican calls for a revolution in the Church's pastoral practice among the divorced and civilly remarried as well as sexually active homosexual persons.

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

Also, for Oliva, Aquinas places the origin of the inclination for gay sex in the soul of the homosexual person.

Oliva concludes that we can distinguish between gay sex sought simply for physical pleasure, and the tender gay sex that comes from the homosexual person's most intimate self.

«Homosexual persons,» in contrast, «are called to chastity.

As for acting out of personal arrogance, the mistreatment, even abuse, of those on the fringes of society is what I was saying leads me to question the treatment of homosexual people.

It was, in fact, the independent realisation (confirmed by scholarship), when doing a word search on «Sodom», that Sodom is incorrectly used to condemn homosexuality which led me to question the treatment of homosexual people.

The crisis point came following the ELCA's 2009 decision to bless same - sex relationships and allow noncelibate homosexual people to be ordained.