Sentences with phrase «on homosexual persons»

It is not to be misconstrued as criticism or an attack on homosexual persons as individuals or a group.

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Many people already know about the Kinsey scale, the near - ubiquitous system that allows people to gauge their sexuality on a sliding scale, which revealed that people do not always fit exclusively into heterosexual or homosexual categories.

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 disordHomosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disordhomosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

It is one thing to believe homosexual relationships are sinful (I'm sure though that it is really more the sexual component that has people uncomfortable) and another thing to try and project that value on another.

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.

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.

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).

It is precisely such a perspective that is needed in current debates on homosexuality and the issue of civil unions for homosexual persons.

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?

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

On 3 March, Dolan wrote to President Obama to express his concern at the Administration's action, and in a public statement offered to any who will listen a clear and confident presentation of the Catholic Church's position on the question of the treatment of persons with a homosexual orientation in the civic spherOn 3 March, Dolan wrote to President Obama to express his concern at the Administration's action, and in a public statement offered to any who will listen a clear and confident presentation of the Catholic Church's position on the question of the treatment of persons with a homosexual orientation in the civic spheron the question of the treatment of persons with a homosexual orientation in the civic sphere.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

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.

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.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

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.

Of course the activists blame these pathologies on society's intolerance, but it is not intolerance that produces another and very basic reason why people hope their children will not be homosexual.

Turning the tables on the time - honored conceit that Americans are God's chosen people, Phelps and his followers insist that «God is America's enemy» because the United States has abandoned biblical principles for the evils of homosexual lust.

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.

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.

But the person who insists she is a Catholic, but finds the Trinity «patriarchal and oppressive», Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross «just so bloodthirsty», lesbian and homosexual relationships «a lifestyle to be celebrated», and the Pope «a ridiculous figure»......... such a person's contribution to dialogue lacks integrity and meaning Pro's And Con's Of The Ghetto Culture Of course, the reasons for wanting to emphasise one's Catholicism are pretty obvious: it gives status, enlarges one's importance, and is, at present, very fashionable.

Earlier this year, the General Synod held discussions on a controversial report concerning sexuality which backed traditional marriage but also called for «maximum freedom» for homosexual people.

What is tragically wrong with our society is that many people want to justify those who slander homosexuals, abortionists and even our nation's leader by drawing on the Word.

Thibault agrees with the message, and feels that gay people who act on their homosexual urges should not be eligible for all of the sacraments of the Catholic church.

Consequently, the amount of money expended on separating people because of homosexual behavior would not decrease, but would increase if homosexuals were admitted.

If Jesus gave special status in his day to persons who do not procreate, on what grounds do churches today treat modern eunuchs — single people, homosexuals, and childless couples — like outcasts?

We had this discussion at church should we allow homosexuals in leadership i was the only one who spoke up and i had prayed during the week and confessed all my sin before the Lord i certainly had no right to condemn someone else for there sin.But the fact is that it needs addressing that was my question to the people presenting the proposal.Is homosexuality a sin the people taking the discussion would not address it as they knew scripturally that it was and clearly had no answer on dealing with that issue and tried to detour around it.

On the contrary, I have seen absolutely nothing but mercy and grace and tender kindness shown by christians towards people who are homosexuals.

In getting the Supreme Court to overrule the people of Colorado on homosexual rights, and in pressing for same - sex marriage in Hawaii, Lambda «is using the courts and the Constitution to expand and protect our rights.»

I was opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality until I actually met homosexual men and women and realised they were good people who just wanted to get on with their lives.

Yet the same leaders remain quite unconcerned about their own ambiguity or vagueness on the moral issue of concrete justice for homosexual people and their need for sensitive and competent pastoral care.

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the homosexual movement signed by twenty - one people, of whom I was one.

«I talked a little bit, I believe it was last Sunday, on the homosexual lifestyle, and there was a whole lot of people who didn't like what I said,» Worley told his congregation Sunday, according to WBTV.

Next Sunday, in the First Church of Nixie, New York, or the Saint Waldemar's Church of Proxie, Alabama, I am sure the respective ministers will declare that love is a wonderful thing, that Jesus agreed with their opinions; so why doesn't everybody get on the bandwagon and love one another — taking it easy, of course, with Negroes, minority groups, homosexual persons, criminals, the mentally ill, and many others?

Lol and «attack on homosexuals» well there is at least one person who regarded you comment as homophobic.Whether it was or not, there was an issue of «congenial conversation» or as some would say, abuse.

My next comment on the issue of AIDS as punishment for homosexual practice may upset even more people than my previous point.

When the terrorist attacks killed thousands of people on 9/11/2001, some Christians said this was God's judgment upon wickedness in our country, and specifically condemned feminists, abortionists, and homosexuals as the cause for this attack.

Conservative Christians are the homosexual person's greatest ally in one important way, Joe Carter argues in Gay Gene Eugenics, today's «On the Square» offering.

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.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

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. 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. Homosexual Persons, para. 16, 1986).

But Kinsey's early research repeatedly has been confirmed: On the scale of sexual orientation relatively few persons fall near the «zero» end (exclusively heterosexual) and relatively few approach the «six» mark (exclusively homosexual).

Even private persons who believe strongly that homosexual conduct is immoral or prohibited by religion were forbidden to act on those beliefs.

His resignation comes on the heels of a controversial post on his website, sakeenah.org, in which he claimed that «an enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life.»

The TVC also makes assertions on its website about disproportionate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the idea that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggests the real purpose of marriage equality is to destroy the concept of marriage and ultimately replace it altogether with group sex and polygamy.

In the event that the majority of the people of the UK are, hypothetically, opposed to homosexual marraige, would its imposition on a hostile population be legitimate?

He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»

On 31 July 2017, Labour councillor Chika Amadi was suspended from the Labour Party to allow an investigation to take place into comments she made on Twitter that compared Homosexuals at Pride marches to «paedophiles», before threatening people who complained about her remarkOn 31 July 2017, Labour councillor Chika Amadi was suspended from the Labour Party to allow an investigation to take place into comments she made on Twitter that compared Homosexuals at Pride marches to «paedophiles», before threatening people who complained about her remarkon Twitter that compared Homosexuals at Pride marches to «paedophiles», before threatening people who complained about her remarks.

Roskoff wrote on his blog, «People ask us how we know he is homosexual.

He was against lifting the ban on gay people serving in the armed forces and on lowering the age of homosexual consent to 16.