Sentences with phrase «of homosexual love»

A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.

These concepts eventually led Hockney to the famed series of paintings produced in 1960/61 that focused on the themes of homosexual love.

This is apparent in the pictures of homosexual love and comradeship, painted while he was a student at the Royal College of Art, discovering gay life in London and already an emerging art star.

Hockney sought ways of reintegrating a personal subject - matter into his art, and began tentatively by copying fragments of poems on to his paintings, which later gave way to open declarations in a series of paintings produced in 1960 — 61 on the theme of homosexual love.

Ivory is, after all, a pioneer of homosexual love on screen — think back to his exquisite 1987 film based on EM Forster's Maurice.

For although we have arrived at a moment in cinema history where — at last — there are more remarkable cinematic accounts of homosexual love than ever before (Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Francis Lee's God's Own Country, John Trengove's The Wound), this film occupies a subtle category of its own.

For instance, we are told: «Civil partnerships were a huge step forward in the recognition of homosexual love and commitment in a relationship» (p69).

Not exact matches

But perfect love casts out fear... if he perfectly loved, there would be no reason for him fear that we are destroying America... no fear for us to teach sunday school... and no fear of the future when homosexuals are accepted as equals, even in Alabama (where I live) or in whatever southern state fishon is in.

I love homosexuals as much as I love anyone else — maybe more because I sorrow for the burdens they carry because of their sin.

The core assumption of Virtually Normal» and a compelling one, too» is that the absence of public laws granting homosexuals full equality has helped create a culture in which homosexuality is considered dirty or sinful, and in which homosexuals are deemed incapable of loving each other with dignity and commitment.

But, in the 70s there was even less acceptance of homosexuality in the church and I wonder if Lonnie ever seriously considered that a loving committed homosexual relationship was an option.

When we have those nuts at Westboro Baptist picketing soldier's funerals, spitting on homosexuals, and making videos about how Santa is a fag and will send you to hell, we catch a glimpse of what happens when abhorrence of evil combined with confrontation consumes and destroys love, catapulting them into realms of hatred that Jesus would fall down weeping at the sight of.

I love the argument he makes, even while I am a progressive Christian who accepts homosexuals as equals in the eyes of God.

Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual love even though he spoke of having experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14 years).

Two books published by Inter-Varsity Press also call for compassionate understanding, with one showing the struggles of a young male homosexual who seeks to live a celibate life although he deeply loves another man (The Returns of Love, by Alex Davidson, 1970).

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 official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

«I love the homosexual community, because I love sinners,» Hacker told me, adding that it was the propagation of homosexuality that he worried about.

He goes on to give an example of Agnosticism in action citing «an eminent critic and writer defending homosexual practices» in terms of a claim that there are `'» many normalcies of love»».

having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he loves homosexuals as much as heterosexuals.

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?

Christians who claim to be loving, yet who brand homosexuals as sinful and wicked, are themselves full of prejudice.

As to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Father.

They know that I love them and support them but I've also made my convictions clear that they must repent of homosexual practices.

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.

What is wrong, what is unnatural, what is immoral and what is gross is intolerance and discrimination against fellow human beings for their sexual orientation and active pursuit of preventing loving and committed homosexual couples from legally being married.

Is loving our brother promoting homosexual behavior or the killing of 55 million babies in the name of women's health, but under the guise of love?

But all of the recovering homosexuals that I have spoken with have made a decision to live and love as Jesus designed them to (their words, not mine).

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.

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.

Homosexuals have trouble loving people of the opposite sex.

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-.

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.

I also wrote it out of love for and loyalty to the homosexual community.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

In the February 2013 issue of Premier Christianity, Chalke wrote an article outlining his views on homosexuality, essentially saying that he saw no problem with loving, committed homosexual relationships.

Homosexual tendencies are chiefly a consequence of miseducation by parents who have failed to establish secure and loving associations with their children.

In what was perceived to be response to the pressure, the Cardinal issued a letter that said homosexual friendship can be «a way of loving,» and declared that «homophobia should have no place among Catholics.»

The answer often seems to be that the happiest solution is for homosexuals to enter into long - term faithful relations in which they satisfy their sexual hungers in the context of growing mutual love and responsibility.

Of course, there were disagreements, but the statements, adopted overwhelmingly, are: «Married Life and the Gift of Love», «Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination» and «Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper»Of course, there were disagreements, but the statements, adopted overwhelmingly, are: «Married Life and the Gift of Love», «Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination» and «Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper»of Love», «Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination» and «Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper».

Weirdest freaking thing to me has been that as you begin to share life with the homeless and the homosexuals and the bikers and the rest of the «malcontents» THEY begin to teach YOU what it means to love, support, and care for your brothers.

There follow verbose passages about union, mutual love, and support, etc., sentiments one finds in romantic poetry and in the sincere expressions of homosexual lovers for each other.

The reason same - sex relations were condemned is because they were not in the context of a loving, long - term relationship (May I ask - do you tell homosexuals that are only in a short - term, sexual relationship that they are sinning, and if so what is their response?)

Rather, we are to share the love of God and the forgiveness of sins that is available to all, including homosexuals, through Jesus Christ.

The second greatest commandment, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, certainly applies to those who are out of the mainstream, homosexuals included.

One thing I love about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.

Trustees reject solution of Sunrise Children's Services president: «I would rather homosexuals see the love of God through us than be denied employment by us.»

Condemnation of all homosexual expressions of love in the church today can also be questioned from the perspective of Jesus» law of love.

I also believe that Homosexuals who accept Christ's sacrifice and Love ALSO LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF GOD»S GRACE.