Sentences with phrase «own homosexuality»

Moore, who identifies as an evangelical Christian and views homosexuality as a lifestyle that is «against nature,» said in a 2005 interview on C - SPAN2 that he believes «homosexual conduct should be illegal.»

China released a new regulation Friday banning any display of «abnormal sexual behaviors» — including homosexuality — in online video and audio content.

«Gay Voice,» a Chinese - language LGBT non-profit magazine, said on social media that homosexuality is just as normal and should not be treated differently.

Under the new rules, content will be edited or even banned if it promotes «luxurious lifestyles,» shows «violent and criminal processes in detail,» demonstrates «obscenity» including masturbation or displays «abnormal sexual behaviors» such as homosexuality.

He pointed to the fact that China has removed homosexuality as a mental illnesses in 2001, and that the World Health Organization had done so in as early as 1990.

«It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality.

The prewar movement had focused on using science to prove that homosexuality was natural.

Russia forbids public discussion of homosexuality with a threat of imprisonment.

Tim Cook, in acknowledging his homosexuality, perpetuated a politically charged myth about gays in the workplace.

Last year, 63 % of Americans said homosexuality should be accepted by society according to a Pew Research Center survey.

The «standard» example: if the baker's religion says homosexuality is a sin, then under the RFRA no one can force the baker to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

These organizations clearly can't condone Russia's brutish stance on homosexuality.

Smith is also concerned that 2017 will see Texas legislators press for «religious freedom» laws that would, for example, exempt Christian retailers who believe homosexuality is a sin from providing services for gay weddings.

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

According to Citizen Lab, Netsweeper has been used to block access to websites on subjects like human rights and homosexuality, and sites dedicated to opposition points of view.

The quote is from an interview with a school teacher who stated «homosexuality is normal» in Russian newspaper Molodai Dalnevostochnik.

Under British colonial - era laws, homosexuality remains illegal in Kenya.

The other part of me also knows that if you do believe by Scripture, tradition and your own internal barometer that homosexuality is a sin (let's say), then you are not going to wish to give the thumbs up to someone being on staff who is openly living that lifestyle.

At some point, we'd actually have to agree to disagree that homosexuality is a sin, and therefore not prejudice decisions about ministry and even marriage on being gay.

Such an admission makes clear that more is at stake on this issue than a new moral judgment of homosexuality.

YOU: And I tend to view homosexuality in this lense also.

These range from the authoritarian «prohibitionists,» who consider homosexuality an abomination warranting legal punishment, to the anarchistic «liberationists,» who reject the very distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality as merely semantics.

I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right - wing Christians about how the Bible condemns homosexuality, as if that point of view still has any credibility.

why would a gay person want to be a part of a faith that is bulging at the seems with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?

But there's little comfort for Mr. Smalling even if a predisposition to homosexuality is eventually shown to be genetic.

I ask because homosexuality often creeps into the conversation but breaking the speed limit never does.

The horrible thing is... the rejection of homosexuality is what forces the gay person into shame and guilt... which results in suppression of their natural feelings... which results in unhealthy, sinful expressions of those feelings.

It is also a fundamental misunderstanding of the term «homosexuality» as it is an orientation, not a sexual act.

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?)

It's not new although there was a very interesting recent article relating to homosexuality in last December's Quarterly Review of Biology.

Then, even though they may apply cultural references to other scripture, they refuse to acknowledge (or at least look at some unbiased research) that loving committed gay or lesbian relationships today do not resemble the types of homosexuality referenced by Paul in Romans or 1 Corinthians.

And again... keep on believing that homosexuality is sinful if you want, I don't care, but don't take the extreme and use that to condemn all homosexuals.

As a gay believer, I am quite convinced that the original plan of God was not homosexuality... that it wasn't the original «design» (a simple inventory of body parts does well to illustrate this point).

So, once again, I am convinced that this passage says a lot about God, but nothing about homosexuality as we understand it today.»

Loving monogamous gay relationships are not comparable to the things that you compare them to... and those who compare homosexuality to pedophilia or alcoholism are acting out of fear and ignorance.

Homosexuality is a much greater burden to you than it is to me.

This verse clearly refers to the practice of homosexuality, but it seems to be talking about those who then become murderers and so on («Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,...») and so on.

I have most certainly heard Christians say that kissing a person of the same sex was practising homosexuality.

Just last Sunday a visiting preacher proclaimed in my church that homosexuality is a «problem».

This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.

Since we discussed homosexuality on here as «sexual sin», this is a very applicable and interesting perspective.

Check out «What the Bible Says — and Doesn't Say About Homosexuality» at http://www.sourforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible for a quick introduction and summary.

No — homosexuality is a mental, emotional and spiritual disorder.

I have one more question, and it may be a very silly and naive question but I have to ask — why would a gay person want to be a part of a faith that is bulging at the seems with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?

However, how does homosexuality actually break the law?

Very few of these have anything to do with homosexuality.

(I have friends who would claim that part of their healing in this area was to learn to accept and embrace their homosexuality.)

And I tend to view homosexuality in this lense also.

Lots of gay people remain decent, civilized human beings, despite their practicing homosexuality.

The church is led by Robert Jeffress, who has been widely criticized for views against homosexuality, Islam and Mormonism.