Sentences with phrase «position on homosexuality»

Regardless of your position on homosexuality, when you consider the numbers, it becomes clear that gay marriage would have very little effect on an «institution» that we heterosexuals have done a fine job of screwing up on our own.

However, we must ask such questions as, «What is the connection between insisting on a «strictly biblical» position on homosexuality and the present treatment of homosexuals?»

What do you think about his position on homosexuality?

Alise, whose best friend is gay, is openly gay - affirming, and yet she continues to attend and serve a more conservative church where few of her fellow worshipers would agree with her position on homosexuality.

Chambers said that Exodus International - which promotes «freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ,» according to its website - has not changed its position on homosexuality but has reevaluated how best to communicate its message.

As more states consider whether or not to legalize gay marriage, church leaders have been forced to examine their theological position on homosexuality.

The standard Catholic position on homosexuality does not condemn homosexual orientation; it does condemn homosexual behavior.

Well, the church he leads does have a complimentarian stance, no female leaders or elders and his position on homosexuality is that homosexual practise is is a sin.

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.

If you are going to use reason to defend your position on homosexuality, why bother with the bible at all?

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

Those Christians who take the Bible literally, in a selective way, to justify their theological positions on homosexuality, abortion, Israel, Marriage, and the exclusive right to call God a «Christian».

After the happy honeymoon she will receive for living down to a cheesey Christian conversion stereotype, she is going to find some ugly things about how Catholics respond to her «questions (about) certain aspects of Catholicism, including the church's positions on homosexuality, contraception and some aspects of religious liberty.»

Since their divergent positions on homosexuality were well known, I invited the panelists to answer...

It is another for some African Christians to argue that their positions on homosexuality are wholly indigenous and that Western forces are practicing a new kind of colonialism in arguing for the legitimacy of same - sex relationships, especially when we hear echoes of Western missionary positions on homosexuality and see Western Evangelicals like Scott Lively actively stirring up hatred against homosexuals in African countries.

Though she now identifies as a Catholic, Libresco questions certain aspects of Catholicism, including the church's positions on homosexuality, contraception and some aspects of religious liberty.

The Fellowship does not issue official positions on homosexuality or other social issues.

Not exact matches

I may be Catholic, but I'm not a maniac about it, runs their unofficial subtext — meaning: I'm happy to take credit for enlightened Catholic positions on the death penalty / social justice / civil rights, but of course I don't believe in those archaic teachings about divorce / homosexuality / and above all birth control.

Theresa May also reiterated her belief that it was ultimately up to the church to decide its own position on the matter, during an interview marking half a century since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.

It was the glaring immorality in the traditional church position concerning homosexuality that drove me to rethinking my views on that subject as well.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

Steinfels appreciates Carter's «centrist» position on issues such as church and state, homosexuality, and abortion.

The rarity with which Paul discusses any form of same - sex behavior and the ambiguity in references attributed to him make it extremely unsound to conclude any sure position in the New Testament on homosexuality, especially in the context of loving, responsible relationships.

Orthodox converts told me that they find comfort in the stability of the church, that positions on issues such as homosexuality and abortion have already been decided and will not change any time soon.

On the other hand, a Christian who adopts this position will call for the development of our theology and views of homosexuality based on what are judged to be more central and enduring biblical themeOn the other hand, a Christian who adopts this position will call for the development of our theology and views of homosexuality based on what are judged to be more central and enduring biblical themeon what are judged to be more central and enduring biblical themes.

«If the court believes that Christian views on homosexuality can be discriminated against, the state has taken a position on a moral question; namely that such religious belief is morally problematic,» said Andrea Minichiello - Williams, the director of the legal group.

I've re-evaluated my position on politics, on homosexuality, on biblical inerrancy, on religious pluralism, and on church.

Two of these sacred cows involve settled positions on gender and homosexuality.

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That's the latest charge to emerge from the Creigh Deeds campaign, which has been flogging the Republican gubernatorial candidate for nearly two weeks over his past positions on working women and homosexuality.

Indiana uses Hartley's coded references to homosexuality to mourn the end of a relationship, and also draws on biographical coincidences between the two artists to forward his own position in American art history.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

«The judges have never, so far as I know, sought to equate the condemnation by some Christians of homosexuality on religious grounds with homophobia, or to regard that position as «disreputable»,» he said.

CAMFT endorses the American Psychiatric Association's Position Statement on Psychiatric Treatment and Sexual Orientationvii, and opposes ``... any psychiatric treatment, such as reparative or conversion therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that the patient should change his or her homosexual orientation.»