Sentences with phrase «own homosexual feelings»

«People need to understand that, just because people choose to engage in homosexual behaviour does not mean people choose to have homosexual feelings.

One commentator makes the important observation that homosexual feelings are not chosen.

Some may argue that it is right to follow homosexual feelings while some may argue it is wrong.

Those who struggle with homosexual feelings and desires are dealing with difficult problems.

The results reveal that while the majority of evangelicals do not consider homosexual feelings to be «wrong», the majority do believe that homosexual actions are «wrong».»

Seen sub specie aeternitatis, encouraging someone to believe that we don't really know what God thinks about sexuality, and that each of us must work it out for ourselves, and anyway it doesn't matter much as long as we do our recycling and volunteer at a homeless shelter, is as serious an error as telling them that God hates them because they have homosexual feelings.

We bring the gay demons out of these individuals so they can become who god intended them to be... Facing the reality that you have unwanted homosexual feelings can cause tremendous turmoil — especially as a child whose feelings conflict with deeply held values, beliefs and life goals.

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.»

Also to see if he gets any sort of positive homosexual feelings from it.

«The fact that [Victim] features a sympathetic homosexual protagonist — the first in British cinema — was no small matter, and the effect it would have had on a boy of 16 struggling with his own homosexual feelings is incalculable.

Not exact matches

Any societal influence that is strong enough to be «felt deeply» by children who are destined to become homosexual is also going to be felt by children whose sexual orientation is less certain.

Homosexuals pervert the gospel of truth because they want to be allowed to feel good about their sin.

Many people will find it increasingly difficult to explain» and some courts will undoubtedly share the difficulty» why homosexual adults should not seek out adolescents and teenagers to help them «feel comfortable» with their homosexual desires.

Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual love even though he spoke of having experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14 years).

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

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

But if the Spirit of God enters them then they will begin to feel uneasy about being homosexual.

So, I'm not sure why you felt the need to single out homosexuals with this idea.

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.

At the same time an effective support network for those who wish to live a chaste life in spite of homosexual temptations is necessary lest faithful people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.

A protest took place outside of a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday, which rejected screening a new film about «men and women moving out of homosexual practices and feelings».

In truth there are many who see this as just dessert for those who, they feel, persecuted homosexual people in times past.

Here there is a good summary of thepain the disorder causes, which Hill has been trying to describe throughout the book, namely «the struggle to be faithful to the gospel's «terrible decree» that we must hold in check our strongest urges and not engage in homosexual activity; the struggle to belong, to find the end of loneliness; and the struggle with shame, with nagging feelings of being constantly displeasing to God» (p. 127).

It felt like I was looking over my shoulder and that stinking homosexual burden was gone!

I am only saying that my negative view of homosexuality is an expression of my religious underpinning, and it has never extended to personally demeaning any homosexual as you have felt the need to do with me.

When does expressing kindness towards homosexuals and others who feel marginalized by the church slide into the sanctioning of sin?

It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»

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

According to a recent Evangelical Alliance survey, «It is common for evangelical Christians to distinguish between homosexual «feelings» and «actions».

You listen to a lonely homosexual man who desperately wants to be married, or a woman who feels she had to abort her child, and everything in you wants to affirm them and reduce their suffering.

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.

For this understandable and deeply felt reason, there appears to be overwhelming support for «death with dignity» among homosexuals.

According to the rabbi, the religious public must rise above its feelings of aversion and soften the «aggressive» attitude towards homosexuals and lesbians.

Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.

It may feel to a straight Christian that their instinctive negative reaction to homosexual sex arises out of the Bible.

How many young people today grow up trying to label their subjective sexual feelings somewhere along the continuum of Kinsey's homosexual - bisexual - heterosexual scale?

Their diffuse sexual feelings may be excited by same - sex contacts, and they may gradually come to label their sexual feelings, and finally even themselves, as homosexual rather than heterosexual.

* What are your present thoughts and feelings about homosexuals?

They have done everything in their power to make men and women feel guilty about having sex with each other, while the leadership was having homosexual relations behind closed doors.

I may have missed it... but I just don't seem to remember anyone attempting to tell hetero - sexuals that homosexual attraction is what THEY should feel.

For example if someone calls a member of their peer group a faggot in order to assert their masculinity (and make sure everyone around them knows they definitely are not a homosexual), the ideal solution would be that the person becomes secure enough in themselves that they wouldn't feel the need to put other people down, using the word «fag» or anything else.

Similarly, having a homosexual brother, Harry, likely led Vince to feel as strongly as he did about sexual orientation as he did about race.

Homosexual footballers have until now kept quiet over the issue for fear of the ensuing backlash, but The Mirror believe that attitudes towards gay players are now changing and the two stars feel that the time is now right to open up.

Reading Sir Gerald Howarth's «aggressive homosexuals» comment, pointedly said in response to Margot James (one of only two lesbian MPs), it's hard not to feel offended and angry.

23:33 - «As a homosexual I can tell you Mr Griffin that the feeling's mutual,» an audience member says.

While the whiff did not influence people's feelings towards many social groups, one effect was stark: those in the smelly room, on average, felt less warmth towards homosexual men compared to participants in a non-smelly room.

A great many people still feel an «instinctive repugnance» towards homosexual intercourse but the rights of individuals who form minority groups or who have special needs can not be decided by the simple preferences of the majority.

There is no reason why you should let these feelings overcome you, or let other opinions of those you care about, such as family members or friends, negatively influence your life when it comes to finding love, relationships, and homosexual dating.

This can take on many forms, such as being dismissed as not a «true» homosexual, feeling like a fraud in any relationship, and struggling to find a partner who understands them.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.