Sentences with phrase «regarded as homosexual»

Not exact matches

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.

Homosexuals and so called «progressive» Christians who have strayed from truth misconstrue that since sin is paid for, God no longer regards homosexuality as sin.

(Just as predictably, the church's doctrine and discipline, with regard to homosexual practice, received even more attention.)

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.

«Regarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine,» said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.

But homosexual activity was regarded by Paul as a punishment visited upon idolaters by God because of their unfaithfulness.

Cindy, I have no agenda regarding homosexual individuals and in roughly 1000 posts on my blog I have not even covered it once, as far as I can remember.

Must regard heterosexual and homosexual relationship as morally equivalent and equally socially acceptable.

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.

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

Newsweek, in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, says that Christians who regard homosexual practice as sin (or who — horror!

With regard to homosexuals, the line is still drawn against any actively homosexual lifestyle, as if homosexuality as such were a matter of morality.

Those who lift up homosexual acts as that which is to be condemned and eradicated are attacking what Paul regards as the symptoms, not the cause.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

Africans, Hispanics, Asians, women, homosexuals, homeless, religious minorities, agnostics, doubters, uneducated, intellectuals, poor, and almost any other category of social life can, under certain conditions, be regarded as failing the appropriate tests of true membership in a society.

The admission on the part of many homosexuals themselves that they have no interest in what they regard as the bourgeois oppressiveness of monogamy exposes the imposture of «same - sex marriage.»

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.

If someone were to regard homosexual practice as absurd, would you consider them to be bigoted and to be making a homophobic statement?

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.

Sixty - four per cent regard homosexual relations in private between consenting adults as immoral, but 75 per cent do not want a law against such practices.

to Ice Cube's Friday trilogy, as an accurate reflection of the sensibilities of the African - American culture in regards to women and homosexuals.

The answers will also be relevant for a preliminary reference that the Dutch Counscil of State has made in a few asylum cases regarding the interpretation of article 9 of the Directive, in particular whether homosexuals can be ascribed as «a social group» in the sense of the provision, and whether it can be expected from them «to conceal some homosexual activities».

Article 10 (1)(d) of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third - country nationals or Stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted must be interpreted as meaning that the existence of criminal laws, such as those at issue in each of the cases in the main proceedings, which specifically target homosexuals, supports the finding that those persons must be regarded as forming a particular social group.

Homosexual communities found a home down Christopher Street, culminating in the 1969 confrontation known as Stonewall Rebellion — what many regard as the light that sparked the nationwide LGBTQ rights movement that is still ongoing.