Not exact matches
The group, which is not explicitly
religious, wants GLBT students to
feel affirmed in their sexuality, acting as a support network for students struggling with their sexual identity, whether they choose to be openly gay or whether they choose to
remain celibate.
The liberal
religious community has
felt helpless before the dramatically changing sexual mores of the final decade of the 20th century because we have allowed ourselves to
remain trapped between the inflexible moralists on one side and the freedom - worshiping secularists on the other.
Many who have tried to
remain faithful to the church
feel guilty that they are unable to reconcile their personal views or convictions with Christian teaching; they live a kind of schizophrenic
religious existence.
On the other hand, a person who has heard the message may not
feel the vocation to become part of the church but to
remain a witness within his or her own
religious tradition.
He asks why the government, in permitting gay marriage,
felt the need to promise
religious groups that they would
remain free to «refuse to perform marriages that are not in accordance with their
religious beliefs.»