Sentences with phrase «sex act not»

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Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Playboy should not have association with being in the sex - act business.»

All of them understood that while the information relating to the romantic and sexual lives of celebrities may be matters of public concern, the act of publishing secretly - recorded footage of a celebrity naked and having sex in a private bedroom is not a matter of public concern.»

North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

In England and Wales the acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal but associated activities such as soliciting, kerb crawling and brothel - keeping are outlawed.

«As a magistrate, I have to act on the evidence before me and quite simply, I believe that there is not sufficient evidence to convince me that placing a child in the care of a same - sex couple can be as holistically beneficial to a child as placing them with a mum and dad as God and nature intended.

But my question is this, if being gay isn't about sex, then a «gay» couple would have no problem abstaining from any sexual act and just love the hell out of each other.

But my question is this, if being straight isn't about sex, then a «straight» couple would have no problem abstaining from any sexual act and just love the hell out of each other.

The feminist position springs not from the premise of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would preclude such partisan perversions of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink of water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect act by a man is a glass of poison.

We should not, perhaps, pay to see the performance of an actress who must get herself drunk in order to act out a sex scene with a married co-star, any more than the film industry should allow animals to be harmed in the making of a film.

Is adultery the act of sex with someone other than one's spouse or is it anything resembling an emotional affair where one shares intimate knowledge of oneself, not necessarily physical contact?

A straight person is not someone who thinks they are attracted only to the opposite sex, it is someone who acts on that by being in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex.

And when I was sorely tempted to have sex before marriage, it was not fear of being brandished unclean that stopped me, it was the sure knowledge that this one act could bring my children into a family that was not ready to be a family.

Holloway follows the traditional notion of the «remedy for concupiscence», saying that it is permitted to seek sex «for the tempering of disordered natural desire», [7] «in remedium concupiscentiae», as long as this is done in such a way as not to thwart the primary end of the act.

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

Believe it or not, there are some gay men that never engage in anal sex for one reason or another (sometimes religious, it being the only gay sex act actually mentioned in the bible as offensive).

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

It is certainly true that not all sex acts carry the same level of risk.

«You appear to agree that the Bible condemns same - sex acts but not homosexual acts since they didn't exist.»

Your idea that everyone was considered heterosexual only further explains that any same sex acts were so deplorable that they would not even acknowledge it.

Thus, in the same way would it not be possible to say that ALL sexual acts between same sex partners are joined under the general heading of homosexuality.

- condemns same - sex acts because the assumption was this was about lust and the concept of a long - term committed relationship wasn't on the radar yet for Judaism.

In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.

Contraceptive sex does not express the full meaning of sexual intercourse — it attempts to thwart and deny the life - giving meaning of the sexual act [9].»

Those who opposed the motion described it as impossible because it would bring division in the church and would discriminate against those who experience same - sex attraction but don't act on it.

Same sex relationships should not be defined as equivalent to opposite sex relationships because, first and foremost, there is not a «unitive act» — marital act — that the couple can perform.

Persons of the same sex can not marry because they can not do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation of new human life.

These acts fail to be unitive whether or not both participants are of the same sex or of the opposite sex (so spare me any talk of being discriminatory).

«Contradictory» not so, stealing is stealing, same - sex acts without the possibility of relationship is just a sex act.

Is it not possible that the prohibition against homosexuality in the Bible is a generic term describing all same - sex acts, no matter what the parameters of that relationship?

(New numbering system) 1) The confusion between homosexuality and same - sex relationships - Earlier you said «Homosexual acts can't be condemned because they didn't exist.

I am sure that any attempt to evade it (e.g. by mock or quasi-marriage with a member of one's own sex even if this does not lead to any carnal act) is the wrong way.»

Having some sort of affection for the opposite sex isn't what the bible warns against, it's the actual sexual act.

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.

Even so, Paul's view toward the same - sex aspect of those rites didn't seem very positive at all, and he did call the sex acts (as the NIV put it) «shameful» and «unnatural.»

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

Historically, most Christians have read that passage as a categorical condemnation of all same - sex sexual acts, regardless of the genuine commitment and care that may or may not accompany those acts.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby, Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color, Atheism is a religion like off is a television channel Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex act Atheism is a religion like health is a disease Atheism has no sacred text, no orthodoxy, no rites or rituals, no houses of worship... it is not a religion or a faith.

As a deeply spiritual act, it's important for people to understand what the Bible teaches (and doesn't teach) about sex, to be able to speak openly and honestly with their ministry leaders regarding sex, and to find solid, biblical teaching on sex.

If we do not have a Telos, then there could not possibly be a problem with homosexual acts or same - sex marriage — or with many other things as well.

One might consider calling condomised sex coitus impeditus; but that will not do, for there is not even the initiation of a trueconjugal act [12].

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

On this novel account, same - sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational - animal purpose of sex — namely the family — but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.

c) This passage does not denounce homosexual behavior as a whole, but just the specific act of anal sex.

Gary JULY 22, 2015 AT 5:09 AM I completely accept that same sex acts are not gross to individuals who are gay or bi.

The bishops who covered up sex - offending priests soon learned that they were not allowed to manage the crisis in isolation but were required to think and act globally and bring the offenders to a public justice.

To reduce issues of sexuality to the question of whether acts of sex are or are not fulfilling for those involved is to manifest the assumption of political liberalism that sex is a private matter.

Does «submission» mean that a woman must perform sex acts she doesn't like in order to please her husband?

One can imagine it is logically possible for same - sex marriage to be established, while those who believe it is not marriage are fully protected in their religious freedom to act on that belief.