A similar number say the same
thing about homosexuality.
Not exact matches
All the
things that horrify very conservative people (abortion, divorce, birth control,
homosexuality, speaking out
about abuse, etc) have been around since the beginning of time.
Look, I frankly don't really care what you believe
about homosexuality, whether it is a sin or not, please, please, please, PLEASE don't blame gay people for the bad
things that happen to our country.
I frankly don't really care what you believe
about homosexuality, whether it is a sin or not, please, please, please, PLEASE don't blame gay people for the bad
things that happen to our country.
The divorce
thing was my attempt to say that many of those who are all over LGBTQs for what they think the Bible says
about homosexuality appear to me to be blind to all the
things they're doing that the Bible and Jesus condemn.
«You're not like those people» — For many parents, the only
thing they know
about homosexuality is what they know from gay pride parades or stories of lewd, immoral behavior.
After the happy honeymoon she will receive for living down to a cheesey Christian conversion stereotype, she is going to find some ugly
things about how Catholics respond to her «questions (
about) certain aspects of Catholicism, including the church's positions on
homosexuality, contraception and some aspects of religious liberty.»
He added, «I will not speak at this moment
about homosexuality: this is another
thing.»
Boswell complains that homosexuals are treated unfairly when others think that their
homosexuality is the most important
thing about them.
What is perhaps most frustrating
about engaging in such conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding
things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and hell, gender roles,
homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we question one another's commitment to Scripture.
One of my gay friends said that Anyabwile's article was the most overtly hateful
thing he has read
about homosexuality from a Christian blog.
that the church has been wrong
about homosexuality for 2000 years is just one of a number of
things it has gotten wrong throughout its history.
Pope Francis routinely denounces Catholic conservatives as small - minded and warns us not to «obsess»
about things like
homosexuality.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all
things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion,
homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions
about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
I want to raise my children to be sensitive to others and aware of others» differences, but I don't personally know any trans * people and there really isn't a template for talking
about things like this (or
homosexuality, or a lot of other
things) in an affirming way within my church community.
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.
FIF's Reese Roper told Billboard that though there are different opinions
about homosexuality within the band, they still believed inviting Trey on stage was the right
thing to do:
The Tories are hoping despite the fact that candidate Peter Cuthbertson recently hit the headlines for having written some strange
things about rape,
homosexuality and morality in the early 2000s.
For the most part, it's a love story both incisively specific — it has a brace of genuinely profound, provocative
things to say
about homosexuality in a mostly accepting, but overwhelmingly straight, world — and swooningly identifiable; anyone, regardless of their orientation, who's had a fleeting night or two with someone that could have turned into more, will feel a firm twang on their heartstrings here.