Sentences with phrase «teachings about homosexuality»

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

It is due to this profoundly personal sacramental meaning of the body that we find a consistent teaching about homosexuality in the Bible (Gn 3 and 19:1 - 11; Lev 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Cor 6:9; Rm 1:18 - 32; 1 Tim 1) and throughout the tradition, wherein this teaching would be infallibly taught by the ordinary universal episcopal magisterium.

Also, you may like to read what Jesus taught about homosexuality.

And Paul's teaching about homosexuality, which was once easily accepted, is now a source of seemingly interminable controversy.

We needed someone who could answer off the cuff the detailed attacks made on Church history and policy: opposition to the use of condoms to combat AIDS, magisterial teaching about homosexuality; the Church's historical attitude to slavery, involvement in the crusades, relations with the Jewish people; someone who could properly confront and contextualise the evil actions of some members of the Church - in Ireland or Rwanda, for example.

Again, expect lots of Jesuitical explanations about how affirming and even advancing legal recognition of gay rights doesn't at all entail rejecting the Church's teaching about homosexuality.

The parents claimed that teaching about homosexuality violated their religious beliefs.

Not exact matches

I may be Catholic, but I'm not a maniac about it, runs their unofficial subtext — meaning: I'm happy to take credit for enlightened Catholic positions on the death penalty / social justice / civil rights, but of course I don't believe in those archaic teachings about divorce / homosexuality / and above all birth control.

She says nothing of the Scriptures» teachings elsewhere about homosexuality, for instance.

When Christians are ready to follow Jesus» teaching on divorce, we can then begin to talk about what the rest of the Bible says about homosexuality.

In fact, I've been taught that homosexuality is just about the worst kind of sin that there is, one we ought to protest against and make laws about.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

To attempt to change a teaching about swift and sudden judgment to become a teaching on sexuality is grasping at straws to find — some / any — justification for homosexuality.

Today that same qualification, if the church teaches biblical truths about homosexuality, is a detriment to one's candidacy in many areas of our country.

Somewhat logically, given the wording and nature of the Bill, this guidance contains elements for Key Stage 2 (age 7 - 11) which are in serious tension with Catholic teaching (e.g. teaching this age group about sexual intercourse, contraception and homosexuality), and for Key Stage 3 (age 11 - 14) which directly contradict it.

So Justin went on a quest: to reexamine the biblical passages that relate to homosexuality to see what they might teach him about how God wanted him to live.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

Our lord on Homosexuality In response to an item last month about the very bad argument that homosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in MaHomosexuality In response to an item last month about the very bad argument that homosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in Mahomosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in Mark 7 as evil.

What he does do, in a frequently captivating manner, is «imagine» what Jesus might have taught if Jesus agreed with him about homosexuality, suicide, and the oppression of women.

It is sometimes said that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality (as if this cancels out all the other verses), but Jesus squarely condemned sexual immorality in general (Mark 7:20 - 23) and quotes the Genesis 2:24 verse in his teaching as an expression of his Father's will in creation (Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7)

Traditional teaching about sexuality, and in particular about homosexuality, was recognized as repressive and as having led to horrible treatment of homosexuals.

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

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.

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.