Sentences with phrase «of homosexual activity»

Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which acted for Gareth Lee, the customer, in Lee v Ashers [2016] MOR 10086, said the court had «ruled out a suggestion which had been made as part of the appeal, that anti-discrimination laws treat less favourably people who share a religious belief concerning the sinful nature of homosexual activity».

His imprisonment was the result of an ill - considered attempt to sue Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, who had publicly accused him of homosexual activity.

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

The church clings to its condemnation of any homosexual activity, justifying itself by means of dubious Biblical warrants of a sort it would be ashamed to use on other issues.

Please explain to my ignorant worldview how Romans 1:18 - 32 does not at least speak of homosexual activity as perversion and how 1 Corinthians 6 does not speak against the homosexual act when the Greek Paul used clearly states in his sin list both partners in the homosexual act.

Sometimes the church uses the promiscuity of active homosexuals as evidence of the unacceptability of homosexual activity in general.

If the only form of homosexual activity of which Paul was aware was promiscuous and lustful, we can agree that what he observed expressed idolatry.

We may even agree that in a society that discourages faithful bonding among homosexuals, a higher percentage of homosexual activity than of heterosexual activity expresses idolatry.

At that moment, if the church had been logical and free of homophobia, it would have re-examined the value of homosexual activity as an expression of human love and companionship.

Wrong about health hazards of homosexual activity?

To your repeating of the so - called health dangers of homosexual activity, may I just say that your own response to Marcie shows that you actually know the difference, but continue to insist otherwise.

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

(3) Do the criminalisation of homosexual activities and the threat of imprisonment in relation thereto, as set out in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of Sierra Leone (Case C - 199 / 12), the Penal Code Act 1950 of Uganda (Case C - 200 / 12) or the Senegalese Penal Code (Case C - 201 / 12) constitute an act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directive?

Not exact matches

Father Reese writes on Newsweek «s On Faith blog, «The Catholic hierarchy does not support ecclesial or state - sponsored homosexual marriage and still argues that sex outside of marriage, including homosexual activity, is sinful.»

On one end is the noncompromising «sin perspective» summarized in these words from an article in a conservative periodical: «The New Testament blasts homosexual activity as the lowest, most degraded kind of immorality» (Alliance Witness, July i6, 1975).

«Good versus Evil: it is that simple,» declared a businessman's letter urging Bloomington citizens «to prayerfully make it a matter of immediate personal decision: to shun the sodomites and their supporters, to use every lawful device to eliminate homosexual activity in this area, and to rededicate our community to standards set forth by God.»

Engaging or not engaging in homosexual activities is viewed as a choice, and thus the power of Christ is needed to enable the person to change or resist homosexual temptations.

But homosexual activity was regarded by Paul as a punishment visited upon idolaters by God because of their unfaithfulness.

Wesley Hill understands that, as a faithfully Christian homosexual man, he is not in the only category of people who are not called to sexual activity.

They estimated a «human freedom index» for each country based on 1985 figures for forty different indicators among them the right to travel, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful detention, independent press, homosexual activities between consenting adults.

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.

Here there is a good summary of thepain the disorder causes, which Hill has been trying to describe throughout the book, namely «the struggle to be faithful to the gospel's «terrible decree» that we must hold in check our strongest urges and not engage in homosexual activity; the struggle to belong, to find the end of loneliness; and the struggle with shame, with nagging feelings of being constantly displeasing to God» (p. 127).

What is being disputed is your unfounded insistence that «homosexual activity» carries its own risk (presumably for some arbitrary reason of being «abnormal») aside from promiscuity which does not discriminate between gay and straight.

Certainly one of the major motivating factors behind my work for the past 20 years — in research, writing and psychotherapy, and in the pastoral activities of preaching, leading retreats and giving lectures and workshops to gay people — is the fact that I myself am a homosexual.

I, for one, would prefer to believe that the church is wrong about homosexual activity than that this sadistic, superego God has any true relation to the God of love revealed by Jesus.

Scriptural authors never deal with homosexual orientation, and when they do treat homosexual activity, they never do so in the context of a loving relationship.

There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.

In some surrounding cultures, homosexual prostitution was practiced in conjunction with the worship of Baal, and Hebrew law might have condemned such activities because they were homosexual or because they involved prostitution or because they were connected with Baal worship.

But the report made a most useful contribution: a scale of points from zero to six, with the zero representing those males demonstrating no homosexual interest or activity whatever, and the six representing those of exclusively homosexual orientation.

Before dismissing the above fantasy too quickly, let the reader think about why it is that our society seems so little concerned over female homosexuality, has regarded it so lightly, and has no idea of the amount of female sexual activity engaged in by women who are not admitted homosexuals.

So far as is known, most of these women, after group sex is left behind, seldom if ever again engage in homosexual activity.

In 1973 the American Bar Association called on state legislatures to repeal all laws which place homosexual activity between consenting adults in private in the category of a crime.

The decision is both traditional (homosexual activity is judged sinful) and groundbreaking (homosexual orientation, though a sign of the brokenness of God's world, does not disqualify a ministerial candidate).

This understanding has developed from scattered reading on the topic and personal acquaintance both with those who condemn all homosexual activity and those who are attracted primarily to members of the same sex.

«Voices of the Silenced: Experts, Evidences and Ideologies» features the testimonies of15 people from eight countries who have moved away from homosexual activity.

Four bishops have already resigned in scandals involving homosexual activity, and a fifth, my friend James McCarthy, auxiliary bishop of New York, resigned over affairs with women.

To clarify, the Bible does not condemn Homosexuals, it condemns Homosexual Activity, in the exact same way it condemns Heterosexual activity, that is sexual actuivity outside the bounds of mActivity, in the exact same way it condemns Heterosexual activity, that is sexual actuivity outside the bounds of mactivity, that is sexual actuivity outside the bounds of marriage.

Only homosexual activity is disapproved, since «the Church sees these acts as attaining their full significance only in the context of marriage.»

The WSCC statement refuses to reduce homosexual people to their genital expression: «Gays and lesbians have just as much right to our approval and acceptance of their overall activity.»

The gay campaigner Peter Tatchell, for example, predictably praised the Bishop of Killaloe for calling on the Church to drop its objection to homosexual activity, along with other moral teachings.

Literal vs. Lateral In the Law of Moses, homosexual activity was punishable by death (Lev.

«There are 6 admonishments in the Bible concerning homosexual activity, and our enemies are always throwing them up to us — usually in a vicious way and very much out of context.

It is not my intention here to recommend any single perspective on premarital, extramarital, homosexual and other forms of sexual activity.

Contemporary biblical studies persuasively indicate that the major theme of the story and concern of the writer were not homosexual activity as such but rather the breach of ancient Hebrew hospitality norms and persistent violations of rudimentary social justice.

As long as homosexual activity was generally understood to express such hatred and contempt — particularly in societies where the dignity of the male was held to be of great importance — any such activity was to be rejected summarily.

At the same time two Congressmen who received the top score for their «Christian» legislative activity were shortly to be convicted for criminal activity: one for accepting a bribe of $ 25,000 in the Abscam scandal and the other for homosexual solicitation of boys in Washington.

The etymology of the word «teabagging» involves a slang term originating in American homosexual subculture (ref - NSFW) involving a specific (typically humiliating based on context) sexual activity between two homosexual males.

Some Members of Parliament with Christian background have vowed to resist any pressure to legalise «abominable» and «backward» activities of homosexuals in Ghana.

Chemical modifications to DNA that change the activity of genes without changing the genes» information differ between homosexual and heterosexual men, researchers from UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine have discovered.

Heterosexual men, as well as homosexual men and women, became aroused while viewing attractive members of their preferred sex engaged in nonsexual activities, such as walking on a beach.