Sentences with phrase «of homosexual tendencies»

In Egypt a man could be arrested and in Saudi Arabia even killed if accused of homosexual tendencies.

Let's turn our attention for a moment to the elephant in the living room, or should I say the «alleged» elephant, since Cardinal Dulles refers to «the alleged increase of homosexual tendencies among younger members in the Society of Jesus as well as in other religious orders and diocesan seminaries.»

Not exact matches

There's such a tendency among Christians to lump all homosexuals together as a group of faceless, nameless «perverts» and to make statements not rooted in fact.

Over a decade ago, in his book The Comfortable Pew (Lippincott, 1965), Pierre Berton chided the church for its tendency to «cast out the outcasts,» with homosexuals at the top of the list.

But the number of homosexual clergy with «deep - seated» tendencies is not.

In 2005, during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican issued directives that barred men from the priesthood «who are actively homosexual, have deep - seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so - called «gay culture.»»

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Not at that moment, but, a few days after his return to Rome, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, issued a statement, explicitly approved by the pope, reaffirming a directive of 2005 that nobody is to be admitted to priestly formation who suffers from deep - seated homosexual tendencies, engages in homosexual acts, or supports the «gay culture.»

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

Perhaps Sullivan himself would marry, but, given the great tendency of homosexual males to be promiscuous, many more like him would not, or if they did, would not marry with as much seriousness.

The Catholic Church has always condemned homosexual acts as «intrinsically evil», as well as of course distinguishing clearly between wounded tendencies, sin, and sinner.

According to Summit, a person who thinks evolution is a legitimate scientific theory, supports regulation of the free market, identifies with left - wing politics, and «seeks to empower the powerless, that is, women, minorities and homosexuals» is a postmodern secular humanist with some Marxist tendencies.

And, most of all, what is meant by «deep - seated homosexual tendencies»?

You don't have to go out and tell people you have got homosexual tendencies — that sort of thing you know.

Cronenberg's adaptation of M. Butterfly (1993) cast Jeremy Irons in a risqué journey though repressed homosexual tendencies, made palatable by metaphor.

The problem is that Ludwig was purposefully mysterious, and that those around him looking to bring him down may have made up or exaggerated certain habits of his (including homosexual tendencies and his mental constitution).