Sentences with phrase «of gay children»

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Christian parents of gay children should be stricken will guilt for leading their children astray.

Here in the U.S., homeless and suicide rates among LGBT youth remain shockingly high, in part because conservative Christian leaders like John McArthur instruct parents of gay children to «hand them over to Satan» and refuse to associate with them.

As any mother of a gay child or survivor of sexual abuse will tell you, when we talk about sexuality, we are talking about real people, real bodies, real families, real lives.

As the mother of a gay child, I am appalled that this person who claims to follow Jesus would advocate beating a child.

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While their story of being «accidental gay parents» drew the attention of international media, they decided to expand their family by having their first biological child together.

In 1999, Reverend Jerry Falwell accused the character Tinky Winky of being «a gay role model» for children because he carried a handbag and had triangular antenna, which he suggested represented the gay pride symbol.

Alex told me about a gay friend who had been booted from his position in Hillsong's children's ministry after he came out and another who, after coming out to Hillsong leadership, was relieved of his duties as an usher.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth agrees that school district policies that specifically deal with sexual orientation and gender identity are an important component of helping gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth feel safe in their schools.

To endorse gay marriage, abortion and distruction of innocent human life, no matter what color of that child is unnatural and evil.

I'm not even going to address how ridiculous that argument is in light of the issues of overpopulation or the fact that gay people can indeed have children (my wife and I are planning to have five), or how many orphans there are in the world that could use a loving home.

I think that our children's children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous gay men... but the result of religious and social persecution of gay people that pushed them into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their sexuality.

A gay man or woman's love for their partner is nothing like the rape of a child... it's disgusting that you would even insinuate that... you have believed a lie.

In 2005 the APA famously articulated the «no difference» thesis: the moral equivalence of children's outcomes in regards to heterosexual and gay parenting.

As Sullivan puts it, there is «more likely to be a greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom.»

Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of gay marriage would be an «unqualified social good» for homosexuals in providing role models for children coming to terms with their sexuality.

Of course, for many who are close to the issue, it is about a loved one, often a child, who is gay.

In outlining the judicial decisions leading to same - sex marriage, Reilly demonstrates how the invocation of privacy law to protect gay sex quickly obscured the moral dignity of persons, especially children.

But the preponderance of child seex abuse in this country is not perpetrated by gays or clergy.

As gay marriage «sank into the subtle background consciousness of a culture, its influence would be felt quietly but deeply among gay children.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Yeh, we saw how wonderful Christians were, when they stood in long lines at Chick - Fil - A to punish the gay parents of children.

For example, gay marriage should be legal unless someone can provide proof of why it shouldn't be, but a man marrying a child should be illegal because we have facts backing that up.

Gays can't get married, women make less money, millions of children don't have access to healthcare, and cops can stop and frisk anyone they feel like in some places.

What logical, caring person can support slavery, discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, discrimination against the handicapped, beating children, beating elderly female slaves without punishment, supporting a god who would let the family of his greatest supporter be killed to WIN A BET, etc..?

I can't wait to see the new text books that children ages 5 an up must now read which glorify the achievements of gay.

What kind of idiots take their children to gay pride parades?

The website «Love One Another: A Discussion on Same - Sex Attraction» www.mormonsandgays.org, outlines the church's position on «same - sex attraction» and provides readers with a host of videos from «church members who are attracted to people of the same sex, and conversations with the loved ones of gay spouses, children, or grandchildren who are dealing with the effects of same - sex attraction in their own lives.»

Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.

He spent much of his life dealing with said anxiety by beating his wife and children before moving on to verbally abusing gay man and lesbians.

He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.

The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

studies have to be donwe using a respectful number... the number of gays having children is too low and too new to see whats going on..

David Thorstad, a spokesman for the h0m0s rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: «The ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of s freedom for all — not just equal rights for «lesbians and gay men, but also freedom of s expression for young people and children.»

I am a straight person who has been blessed with the presense of Abba's gay children in the past.

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.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

It is christians who are out attempting to impose their views (ie: denial of gay rights b / c their book apparently says so; denial of women's rights; using the threat of hell; teaching dis - proven creationism to innocent children) on the public.

Our entire society groans while we wait for just and compassionate laws that will respond to the need: according to recent American Bar Association statistics, the U.S. is home to between 6 and 10 million children of gay, lesbian or bisexual parents.

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.

A statement in support of allowing gay children to join the Boy Scouts would be another step in that softening.

the child YOU mentioned has issue of being TRANGENDER... not gay..

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

Old farts like me have many stories of gay men marrying straight women, having children, and the marriage never worked out long term.

Most wars are religions that fight one another... Pray for Peace??? what the hell kind of church can say that and then say kill gays??? Let us remember there are those in the religious order who molest your children and hide under the sheets so nobody can find them..

Half of gay males experience a negative reaction from parents when they come out, and in 26 % of those cases, the gay child is thrown out of the home.

Thus educational initiatives are already underway to introduce young children to positive examples of «gay and lesbian» relationships [11].

The findings add to past research suggesting gay men haven't died out, because female relatives of gay men tend to have more children on average than other females.

[12] This link has been encouraged by some groups as one which should be made with school children, for example see www.schools-out.org.uk/teachingpack/awholeschoolissue.htm which encourages schools to have «inclusions of oppression of gays and lesbians when looking at the Holocaust in history.»