Sentences with phrase «of homosexual people»

Is this an example of male troglodytism, or is it simply human nature that once sex becomes part of a conversation, it dominates the conversation (see: Hot Coffee, Michaelangelo's David, the sex lives of homosexual people)?

I've spent hundreds of hours in the chat lobbies of major online games, trying to find a single person who has a negative opinion of homosexual people.

We'll read stories of homosexual people being attacked and wonder to ourselves why people can't just let others do what they want.

In 1979 the Catholic bishops of England and Wales issued guidelines for the clergy titled An Introduction to the Pastoral Care 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.

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.

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

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.»

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 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.»

[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.»

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

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

This is the position held in the Vatican letter «On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» issued last October to all the bishops of the world.

But this 1990 study was actually based on a sample that was apparently distorted by volunteer bias and hence not representative of homosexual persons in general.

More and more church groups seem to be feeling a bit guilt - stricken about blanket condemnation of homosexuality and especially of homosexual persons.

On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.

Although the connection is subtle, the intensity of fear or hatred of homosexual persons may be linked to the fear that anyone could be overcome by their own unbridled passions.

Homophobia refers to an irrational fear of homosexual persons.

The decision to declassify homosexuality was accompanied by the passage of an APA Position Statement, which supported the protection of the civil rights of homosexual persons.

Coffin argues for the stance of absolute acceptance of the homosexual person as the one acceptable Christian attitude.

First, it fails to mention that the Church «refuses to consider the person as a «heterosexual» or a «homosexual» and insists that every person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and, by grace, his child and heir to eternal life» (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, para. 16, 1986).

In particular, both documents finish with a quotation from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.

Not exact matches

The Scientific Humanitarian Committee was then the world's leading homosexual emancipation group, boasting a membership of about 100 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.»

Mr. Anderson protests that sexual promiscuity of any sort, whether homosexual or heterosexual, puts people at risk.

This suggests that the resulting proportion of true pedophiles among persons with a homosexual erotic development is greater than that in persons who develop heterosexually.

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 also know people who hold to the same beliefs regarding homosexuals as fishon but who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on both sides of the debate... and even though they still think homosexuality is a sin, they don't resort to the language and comparasions that fishon does... because they know that homosexuality isn't anything comparable to pedophilia or alcoholism.

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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.

This, I'm told, is the kind of humor that people who watch Stephen Colbert, who is a self - identified faithful member of a Church that teaches that homosexual inclinations are intrinsically disordered and that sodomy is a mortal sin, relish.

Christians need to send the opposite message of what they've sent in the past: People living the homosexual lifestyle are valuable.

Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.

One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

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:

Schwoyer made the point that many people think of homosexuals as concerned only with lust.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Persons of homosexual orientation have a unique calling in secular culture.

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.

Married people and parents, almost all of them by now survivors of the sexual revolution, weren't asking for the task force's kind of help, and homosexuals will not be assisted by the church's lying about Scripture.

And not just homosexuals, but single persons of whatever orientation must also remain totally celibate, says Gagnon, till they marry or die.

I believe a homosexual can be saved, but the Holy Spirit will lead that person to holiness and to the Will of God.