Sentences with phrase «others with their homosexuality»

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the former prime minister told the Polish edition of Newsweek that homosexuality is unnatural and threatened lesbians and gay men with «state intervention» if they tried to «infect others with their homosexuality».

Not exact matches

note to how this relates: - some have suggested the idea «homosexuality» is not really in the Bible (can be lumped together with other sexual sins?)

The core assumption of Virtually Normal» and a compelling one, too» is that the absence of public laws granting homosexuals full equality has helped create a culture in which homosexuality is considered dirty or sinful, and in which homosexuals are deemed incapable of loving each other with dignity and commitment.

On the other hand, he wrestled with homosexuality, and the Church is not great at dealing with sexual issues period, let alone same - sex issues.

«some have suggested the idea «homosexuality» is not really in the Bible (can be lumped together with other sexual sins?)»

People balked at the comparison of gluttony to homosexuality... and I guess my question was why is one so charged with guilt and emotion while the other we don't really care so much about.

Chudacoff, who throughout his book tends to introduce the theme of homosexuality with hints and surmises rather than data, counters Stott's argument with this: «More recently [actually less recently — in 1985 and 1988] other historians have discovered hints [of homosexual relations].»

I am NOT saying that people that struggle with homosexuality are destined for hell as the blood of Jesus covers that sin as it does all others.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

Their self - understanding as sexual beings is disturbed by encounters with homosexuality, both in themselves and in others.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The disingenuity of, for instance, the American Psychological Association in claiming that it does not advocate the acceptance or legitimation of homosexuality is all too clear from its membership in the «Just the Facts Coalition,» along with the National Education Association and other groups.

Homosexuality along with other things are sin!

Editor's Note: John Stemberger is an Eagle Scout and president of On My Honor, a coalition of concerned parents, Scout Leaders, Scouting donors, Eagle Scouts and others affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America who are united in their support of Scouting's timeless values and their opposition to open homosexuality in the Scouts.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

If the entire Bible is the word of God, which it most certainly is, then we can simply look to other scriptures, like Paul in Romans (1:26 - 28) to understand that homosexuality is a sin and and ought to be repented of, turned from, along with other sins when turning to Jesus Christ for salvation.

By clearly alluding to the Levitical prohibitions against male homosexuality, followed immediately with his declaration that «one shall be taken, and the other left,» Jesus declared his own acceptance of gays and lesbians, and that gays and lesbians are not automatically rejected by God.

I find the hard line attacks on the sin of homosexuality with exclusion to other sins disturbing.

Moving forward with the series, I'd like to spend just a few more weeks focusing on the specific topic of homosexuality, before we move into other aspects of human sexuality, like singleness, «purity,» sexual ethics, marriage, and so on.

So Lambda and its allies are quite right to believe that, in getting the government to declare that millennia of classical, Jewish, and Christian teaching on homosexuality is nothing more than prejudice, «gay people have found far more success in the courts than in Congress» — or in any other institution with a measure of accountability to the American people.

For people to defile it with homosexuality or any of the other 200 + perverted attractions, and claim the «born that way» hoax is just despicable.

But there is something of a difference between gluttony, greed etc. and homosexuality as far as the church's reaction goes (and this is far from saying that the church has dealt with homosexuality in a good way), and that is the fact that there is a massive movement within and without the church, not to show that homosexuality is a sin like any other, but to show that it is not a sin at all.

Psychiatrists and others connected with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), however, say that the psychotherapeutic success rate with homosexuals is about the same as with other patients struggling to overcome a deep - seated problem, namely, about one - third.

Educational Guidance, like many other church discussions of homosexuality, seems dominated by a one - sided concern with homosexual behavior.

All it takes is reading those passages of the Bible wherein homosexuality is mentioned with the same care we would any other passage of the book.

It's that Jesus ended the laws against homosexuality along with all those other Old Testament laws like shellfish and beards.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

She has made the correct assumption that a true Christian could never agree with the sinful nature of homosexuality, abortion and other elements neccessary to the faith.

Thirty children from a black Baptist church in San Francisco showed up at the hospital to sing carols for Clover and other people with AIDS (commonly referred to as PWAs) In the ensuing months he was able to bring together the congregations of Double Rock Baptist Church, which condemns homosexuality as a sin, and MCC - SF, which preaches that homosexuality is a gift from God.

This principle is applied by Barth and others in such a way as to place homosexuality in the wrong when contrasted with heterosexuality.

Not only so, but we've had to wrestle with women's issues, homosexuality, the atonement, and many of the same conflicts that other denominations are facing as well.

The more I studied, the more convinced I became that we Christians had applied a different standard to the homosexuality texts than we had to other Scriptural texts, and that condemning Christ - centered relationships solely based on gender was actually inconsistent with biblical teaching.

«I unequivocally have no other reservations about homosexuality,» he said in a statement released by his campaign, noting that he enjoys a close relationship with his nephew, who is gay.

BY ANDY HUMM Four out gay members of the City Council are siding with anti-gay lobbyists in their quest to secure tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in city funds to pay for school safety officers in religious and other private schools, despite the fact that many of them teach that homosexuality is immoral -LSB-...]

Other results showed my brain getting very active over the social policy questions — probably because I strongly object to mixing religion with such issues as abortion and homosexuality — and relatively quiet when I was asked about God's being angry or loving.

Homosexuality in high school football A survey of 47 former U.S. high school football players — turned university cheerleaders finds that 19 of them had engaged in sexual acts with other men, including kissing, mutual masturbation and oral sex.

Lady Bird also deals with other serious topics such as politics, religion, sex, and homosexuality.

Hawks does a similar thing with homosexuality in Red River when he has John Ireland and Montgomery Clift discuss the virtues of handguns and ask to hold each other's pieces.

If we control for education, however, we find that in each of the four decades, teachers are from 10 to 15 percentage points less likely than other Americans with 16 or more years of schooling to see nothing wrong with homosexuality (see Figure 2).

The Freedom Project, affiliated with the radical right John Birch Society, says the Core is an «absolute appropriation of Soviet ideology and propaganda» and says it is mainstreaming homosexuality, promiscuity and other practices.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

She had a huge variety of issues to tackle that had never been dealt with in film, much less politics, literature or any other venue: feminine sexuality, homosexuality, gender roles, as well as coping with aging and death.

Others are wrestling with their demons in their strident denunciations — closeted homosexuals who rail against homosexuality are in this category.

A person who detains another person with the intention to commit acts of homosexuality with him or herself or with any other person commits an offence and is liable on conviction for seven years.

This is actually a very large subset of psychology that is often at odds with «mainstream» psychology due to the views practitioners have on the role of Christianity in our lives, homosexuality and other beliefs and practices that are accepted by society as a whole but not by various sects of Christianity.