Sentences with phrase «on homosexual desire»

Walter Pfeiffer (b. 1946, Zurich, Switzerland) is a photographer whose subjects have included the non-conventional representation of the male body and of his sexuality, with a focus on homosexual desire and imagery.

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This discussion began with me commenting on the sense that there is something, I'm not sure what, problematic about the position that those with homosexual desires are not to practice, and that makes everything okay.

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

«I often wonder if coming to understand and believe that God does, indeed desire us,» he writes, «and that we are invited to return his desire might be the «remedy» in some ultimate sense, for the loneliness and craving for love that I and other homosexual Christians experience on a regular basis.

I believe that when Bishop Niederauer and many others caution against thinking of homosexual orientation as the cause of sexual abuse, they are asserting that we, and the Vatican, would do better to focus less on the content of a person's sexual fantasies and more on his or her ability to control his or her sexual desires.