Sentences with phrase «role as a homosexual»

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The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

Given this general agreement, scholars do differ as to whether homosexual activity actually played any role in the story at all.

Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

This year, he's successfully portrayed two entirely different roles; he's gone from serious - as - a-heart-attack closeted homosexual cowboy in Brokeback Mountain to Casanova himself, a charming, playful socialite of a ladies man.