Sentences with phrase «such homosexual persons»

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

Not exact matches

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.

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.»

It is precisely such a perspective that is needed in current debates on homosexuality and the issue of civil unions for homosexual persons.

Homosexual persons have, of course, legitimate rights such as the right to work and the right to be treated fairly.

Examples of such oppressed groups are the Jews, aboriginal peoples the world over, homosexuals and women.

(NB: In this context, «homosexual» means someone with dominantly same - sex desires, while «gay» refers to a person whose self - identity is determined by such desires.)

While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.

But the person who insists she is a Catholic, but finds the Trinity «patriarchal and oppressive», Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross «just so bloodthirsty», lesbian and homosexual relationships «a lifestyle to be celebrated», and the Pope «a ridiculous figure»......... such a person's contribution to dialogue lacks integrity and meaning Pro's And Con's Of The Ghetto Culture Of course, the reasons for wanting to emphasise one's Catholicism are pretty obvious: it gives status, enlarges one's importance, and is, at present, very fashionable.

Because certain church spokespeople have contributed to the formation of an environment that is prejudicial to homosexual people, declares the WSCC document, «the Church is seriously obliged to work toward the uprooting of such prejudice.»

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

Then such persons should seek to sublimate their homosexual desires and not act upon them.

If the homosexual can change his or her sexual orientation, such a person should seek to change.

We know from historical records that there were many «gay» and «homosexual» people at the time (though they didn't go by such terms).

Another idea was to limit the drug to specific populations who are at the very highest risk, such as homosexual people who use intravenous drugs, but the FDA adopted a vaguer category encapsulating anyone at high risk of contracting HIV.

Not only can you search people by location and sex, but you can also avail of dating options such as bisexual, homosexual, straight and interracial dating.

This is the case, because there are chat lines available for specific groups of people, such as homosexual, African Americans and even Latinos.

Even so, he starts making about - face statements such as, «I was a heterosexual person with a homosexual problem.»

The author went on to state, «While I don't hate such people [homosexuals] as a person, I do have to hate their unholy and unnatural lifestyle choice.

Article 10 (1)(d) of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third - country nationals or Stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted must be interpreted as meaning that the existence of criminal laws, such as those at issue in each of the cases in the main proceedings, which specifically target homosexuals, supports the finding that those persons must be regarded as forming a particular social group.

The UNHCR Guidance Note also recognizes «that criminal sanctions for homosexual activity also impede the access of LGBT persons to State protection,» and that such a situation could support a claim that the State condones or tolerates persecution of sexual minorities, or that the State is unable to offer any state protection.

There was a fundamental difference between, on the one hand, offering something lawful to which a person was not automatically entitled in law (such as the acceptance of pleas to fewer or lesser offences with a consequent reduction in sentence or assistance towards repatriation) and, on the other hand, threatening something unlawful against which the person would normally have legal protection (such as an irremediably unlawful sentence or, as in the Cobb case, homosexual rape).

For example, bisexual people are often categorized as «homosexual» in such studies, and then when they enter a heterosexual relationship, it is considered a successful «conversion.»