Sentences with phrase «such as a gay person»

This may have been a great call if the goal was to increase the number of people using Groups, but ignored possible side effects such as a gay person being outed against their will by being added to an LGBTQ group by someone else, Calacanis said.

Not exact matches

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

Such as some people would never tell a gay...

Such as some people would never tell a gay person they are going to hell to their face.

They, personally, find it «distasteful» (although it is AMAZING how many prominent anti-gay people end up being exposed as gay), and, because they can use their delusion to justify such an inhuman and anti-American stance, they feel the need to force their stupidity on everyone else.

Such supporters were described as men and women who seek «to «demean,» to «impose inequality,» to «impose... a stigma,» to deny people «equal dignity,» to brand gay people as «unworthy,» and to «humiliat [e]» their children.»

That we must disbelieve scientific evidence, that certain people, such as Gays, are condemned, or that your whole life must change, and your whole view of the world must change.

And other racisms, such as sexism... of women for being women or for gays for being gay... people suffering because of who they are.

I've gone through such a difficult, isolated time as the Christians around me believe things that make me so angry — like gays are sinning and that homosexuality is the worst thing for our society and is accelerating us towards the end times and that if we support gay people we are deeply deceived and can fall away from the faith.

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

He seems obsessed with the idea that because people don't all agree with him on issues such as gay marriage that it is essential we all look to the bible to figure out what's ethical and moral, and all assume that it is the final word on what's right or wrong.

Gays were killed for being gay — and they still were — there's no such thing as a law draconian enough to keep people from being themselves, to force that degree of conformance.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

You're a bigot if you think that being gay is a sin AND you have to coerce people into not being gay by punishing it... such as by putting legal restrictions on relationships that gay individuals are involved in.

I've seen people move denominations to avoid thinking about issues they are uncomfortable about, such as the inclusion of gay Christians.

The closest to that is some meetings limit themselves to only self - professed alcoholics (closed meetings), and some are expressly for groups such as women, or men, or gay persons.

I have and I believe gay people are God's creation based on the evidence and therefore do not fit any of the definitions of sin that are presented by prejudice Christians such as you..

The fanatical impetus for change is coming not from gay people as such but from a small caucus surrounding David Cameron, whose interests and affiliations make interesting reading, and from Nick Clegg.

At least as long as you do not try to apply it to other people, such as denying civil gay marriage.

It's unbelievable that Christians believe people make a «choice» to be gay when such an incredible amount of hatred is expressed toward gay people, even as children.

First, there is no such thing as a gay gene, I have no idea why some people are the way they are, perhaps some day we will know.

However, enforced or not, sodomy laws stigmatize as criminal the person whose only crime is preference for the same sex, and inevitably such laws have considerable effect upon the gay individual's sense of self - worth.

Gay people are okay... straight people are okay... all of us are okay... we are not sinners... and there is no such thing as sin...

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

I'd also be interested in hearing more about your story, such as when you first discovered you were gay, how long you waited before you told people, that kind of thing.

I don't know why anyone would care about rainbows and unicorns such as the gay community thinking they will not have people hate them LOL.

Still, I have heard of people who are not romantic partners wed just to have children with the benefits of marriage, such as a gay man and a lesbian, so who knows how popular it is?

Thanks both to the lack of truly divisive issues in the UK (such as abortion, gay marriage or gun control) and more importantly a fear of being branded a maverick by the central party, British candidates sadly can't motivate people to give the kind of money it takes to run a state - ofthe - art campaign.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

This is part of a victimhood narrative in which, it is said, people are being penalised «for being Christians» (read: for discriminating against gay clients) in various roles such as registrars, relationship counsellors, would - be adopters, and hotel proprietors.

Franke said such audits can be «unreliable» because some people don't identify as male or female, or fit into a single racial category, and some respondents could be gay or bisexual or not ready to go public with their sexual orientation.

A participant was identified as gay or bisexual in the study if she identified herself as such and if she reported being attracted to people of the same sex.

Individuals such as Roy Cornes, a haemophiliac living in Birmingham, have been accused of infecting several sexual partners in a short time, yet it is equally possible for people to be exposed thousands of times to the virus without becoming infected, whether through gay or straight sex.

Why do people have the attitudes they do toward social issues such as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights, school prayer, and capital punishment?

But for the most part, Beyrer says, the failure to get PrEP to the people who need it most — those who are HIV negative and are at high risk of infection — and the backsliding in terms of civil liberties for the gay community in nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Uganda have contributed to the continued high HIV rates among gay men.

Because world is full of straight, lesbian or gay people who indulge at promiscuous behaviour, it appears unfair to label bisexual person as such.

Some of these differences include: the ability to search from a deep pool of potential partners outside of one's existing social networks; the ability to communicate online or via email prior to arranging for a face - to - face interaction; and matching algorithms that allow users to filter potential partners based on pre-existing criteria.3 Other research has indicated that the efficiency of online dating and the size of the potential dating pool compared with traditional methods make the process especially useful for people (such as gays and lesbians, or middle aged heterosexuals) who may have limited options for meeting people within their immediate geographic area or social circle.4 Still others have speculated that the rise of online dating has encouraged young adults, especially men, to forego marriage because they can always find women to date and that lowers their interest in committing to long term relationships.5

Bringing LeFou gently out of his closet, to the consternation of censorship - minded countries such as Russia and Malaysia, certainly has gotten people talking (though there's a drag - queen shout - out that's a lot more gay - forward than anything LeFou's up to).

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.

The jokes and parodies are also absolutely spot on, such as mocking Kanye West as a talking gay fish trying to get his mother into Heaven, or crab people taking over Verizon.

His work graced such publications as The New York Times, The London Observer, The Advocate, POZ, The NY Daily News, OUT, Next, Huffington Post, VIBE, Gay Times (London), Teen People, BLUE, GLAAD Kissing Calendar and A&U.

Then again, if enough bigots exist such that falsely claiming someone was gay could harm their reputation, should, as a matter of policy, people be able to sue?

However, funding has not been restored for Charter challenges by other groups such as ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians or people with disabilities.

• it is in the interests of the children involved that the pool from which prospective parents are drawn be as wide as possible; • discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation is a serious matter because it departs from the principle of treating people equally; • local authority evidence suggested that even if the charity were to close its adoption service, children would be placed through other channels; and • local authority evidence suggested that gay and lesbian people were suitable prospective parents for hard to place children, and that such adoptions have been successful.

First Peoples of Australia have a slightly higher rate of HIV compared to non-Indigenous Australians and the potential for HIV to increase due to a number of risk factors such as increasing injecting drug use, risk practices among gay and other men who have sex with men, high rates of other STIs in communities and more cases acquired among women and heterosexual people.