Sentences with phrase «say homosexual»

49 percent of those without a college degree say homosexual behavior is a sin, compared with 35 percent who have a college degree.

It is not fair, for example, to compel a child being raised by a gay couple to attend a school in which the teachers say homosexual practice is sin.

In 1991, three in four Americans said homosexual relations are always wrong.

In what was perceived to be response to the pressure, the Cardinal issued a letter that said homosexual friendship can be «a way of loving,» and declared that «homophobia should have no place among Catholics.»

What do you say to people that say homosexuals have an abnormal psychological makeup.

«Can we generalize from this passage,» asks Wolterstorff, «and say that Paul is saying that God says homosexual activity is always wrong?

Jamaica has become the third country to refuse entry to a controversial American pastor who said homosexuals should be killed.

Jamaica has become the third country to refuse entry to a controversial American pastor who said homosexuals... More

Cummins went on to say homosexuals and lesbians do not need special human rights protection because «people are already protected under the human rights code.

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

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.»

Thiel says he himself was a victim of the blurring of that line when Gawker outed him as a homosexual in 2007 without his permission.

«If my son or daughter, having reached, say, the age of ten or eleven, is lured into a school sex club, is persuaded that he or she must be homosexual, acts accordingly, acquires HIV and then AIDS and remains crippled for life, whom do I sue?»

This being said, when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements of Scripture.

YOU: Other fundies have said that it's not okay for gay men to kiss — that that is still being a pracitsing homosexual.

preacherlady said, on November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Fishon... thats as prejudiced a statement to condemn something because it was written by a homosexual as it was to judge you because you are Church of Christ -------- Alice, the Bible doesn't condemn being in or of the Church of Christ, but it does condemn practicing homosexuality and as I said before, calls it....

What is sad is that he thinks by saying and / or believing these things he is showing love to the homosexual.

This passage also says these people gave up heterosexual passions for homosexual passions... again... doesn't accurately describe gay folk today.

preacherlady said, on November 5th, 2009 at 7:42 pm fishon... how much contact with homosexuals have you had?

Andrew Sullivan of The New Republic says that we all live in subcultures now, the homosexual world being simply one among many.

Doesn't then every other group here with some collective memory of suffering» from homosexuals, say, to Armenians» deserve its own House of Sorrow?

As the interview progressed, the woman went on to say that homosexuals are recruiting and insinuated that most of them are child molesters.

Americans were equally split on whether homosexual relationships between adults are wrong, with 44 percent saying yes and 46 percent saying no.

«Out and Organized,» the Times story on homosexual recruitment, depicts favorably a young Hispanic man of twenty who says he has been HIV - positive for seven years.

So Steve, You believe that a person who, as you say, belongs to Christ, and is a practicing homosexual when they die, they are going to heaven?

In my last essay at First Things, I echoed the words of Pope Benedict writing about the pastoral care of the homosexual person by saying, «only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.»

Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual love even though he spoke of having experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14 years).

For the premises were firmly in place: Justice Kennedy had said that people in homosexual relations «seek autonomy» for themselves, just as people in heterosexual relations do.

There are some who would argue that it is wrong to say you are an alcoholic, just as there are some who would argue that it is wrong to say you are a homosexual.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

So you could say environment does make some men homosexual who maybe weren't born that way.

«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.

The author of the review thinks this book sinks under its own weight, for its author makes no secret of his loathing of the whole homosexual community, quoting every passage in the bible that can even remotely be translated against them, often twisting passages to say what they do not mean.

The married - sex - only agreement that Wheaton students and faculty sign is part of the college's Community Covenant, which says that students agree the Bible condemns «sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography, premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage between a man and woman.»

And not just homosexuals, but single persons of whatever orientation must also remain totally celibate, says Gagnon, till they marry or die.

What you need to know to understand where that was coming from is that Christine is married to a woman (me, actually) and so when she said that, because of her gender, she would expect Brigitte to say that her life was loveless and godless, she was referring to many previous discussions with Brigitte who believes homosexual relationships to be sinful.

Here's what Robertson says: «Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

The bible has a lot more to say about heterosexual behavior than it does about homosexual behavior.

But I also say that people who choose other lifestyles, heterosexual or homosexual, should be accepted, just as atheists and libertarians are accepted, in the hope that they will come to faith in Jesus which will presumably involve repentance.

It is not for me to say that an acknowledged Homosexual can not be a Christian.

As to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Father.

So, how can you say that people can be born eunuchs, but not homosexual.

It is important, they say, that in every congregation such homosexual persons should find fellow - Christians who sensitively provide friendship and understanding.

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.»

Almost 9 out of 10 Americans know someone who is gay or lesbian (87 %), and those people are more likely to say homosexuality is morally acceptable (19 %) than those who don't have a homosexual friend or family member (3 %).

William Oddie quotes a correspondent defending the Soho Masses as saying, «Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics» (Ecclesial Co-operation with Homosexual Activism; Faith September and October 2010).

The study also found that white evangelicals who attend church overwhelmingly say that abortion (89 %) and homosexual behavior (86 %) are morally wrong.

Wesley also opened up to a pastor who Wesley says «spent many hours trying to convince me that... my homosexual temptations weren't any more (or less) tragic than temptations to greed, pride, or anger that Christians face on a daily basis.»

At a dinner with faculty members afterward, one professor remarked, «We could never have gotten away with what you said about homosexual acts being morally disordered.»

I also want to say that my life has intersected with many homosexuals who I've befriended.