Sentences with phrase «of homosexual persons»

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.

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

The document fails to consider other facets of homosexual people which are of equal or greater moral importance.

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

Thus, I basically concur with the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons in its description of the homosexual condition as a «moral disorder,» a «disordered sexual inclination.»

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

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.

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.»

At bottom, homosexuality seems to result from fragmentations within the child / father / mother relationship, and the deepest need of the homosexual person is to repair those fragmentations.

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

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.

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

If the issue is the relationship of homosexual Christians to God, then the most important question is that of how the church can support the spiritual well - being and wholeness of homosexual people.

If this distinction is accepted, the condemnation of homosexuality in Romans does not apply to the sexual acts of homosexual persons.

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.

Three kinds of homosexual people are carefully distinguished: (1) those who have personality disorders which lead to criminal offenses; (2) those who have psychological problems such as neuroses and alcoholism; and (3) those who are «well - adjusted, stable people... who have come to terms with their homosexuality, who never seek help and who are never in trouble with the law.»

He agrees with the French theorist Michael Foucault that «it was the production and dissemination of a medical discourse in the recent past that gave birth not just to the concept of a homosexual person, but also to homosexuals themselves, and at the same time, to their antitwins, heterosexual persons.

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

It also stated, «We commit ourselves to listen to the experience of homosexual persons.»

The states knew Catholic agencies couldn't comply with their demands, but preferred serving the political interests of homosexual people (as the states perceived those interests) over the needs of orphans.

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.

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.»

Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,» art.

Paragraph 101, for example, which is basically a repetition of another statement on homosexuality taken directly from the Vatican Declaration of 1975, talks only about the «personal difficulties» of homosexual people and of their social maladaption.»

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

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.