Sentences with phrase «taught about human sexuality»

At a hearing last month, more than 100 people weighed in on the debate over what middle and high school students should be taught about human sexuality.

According to the CCRL, at stake is the right for Catholics and other Christians who believe church teaching about human sexuality and morality (specifically, teachings against homosexuality and same - sex unions) to speak publicly about their beliefs.

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On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an AP story about the task force's draft of a social teaching statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the pastors had received their copies.

Historic Christian teaching — especially on contested issues like sexuality, exclusivity, the sacredness of all human life, generosity or beliefs about the afterlife — is, admittedly, not always popular.

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They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

This subject must be presented only in terms of chastity, health and the truth about human sexuality in its relationship to the family as taught by the Church.»

If Christ's teaching about marriage and family is not the medicine for overcoming the hardness of the human heart about which he speaks in Matthew 19:8, and if he hadn't been able to restore health to something as basic to human life as marriage, family and sexuality, then he wouldn't be the one the human race was looking for.

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Such an attitude undermines the Church's teaching about the crucial importance for the Christian life of, for example, participating in Sunday Mass or respecting the dignity of human sexuality by not cohabiting before marriage.

With 100 - plus proposals on what the United Methodist Church (UMC) should do about human sexuality — from deleting its Book of Discipline's stance that homosexuality is «incompatible with Christian teaching» to allowing local churches to choose whether or not to approve same - sex unions and non-celibate gay clergy — organizers of the denomination's quadrennial conference tried to develop a special process to address the issue.