Sentences with phrase «toward homosexual persons»
At the most negative pole for Nelson are those holding to a «rejecting - punitive» approach - one which «unconditionally rejects homosexuality as legitimate and bears a punitive attitude toward homosexual persons.»
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As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disordHomosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disordhomosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»
The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).
God's morality does not change, and as a church and a people we often have a lot of bigotry toward the increasing numbers of homosexuals in our midst — however!
«Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex... Tradition has always declared that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»
I have personally witnessed much less than kindness toward persons like myself who are of the homosexual orientation by many well meaning (and not so well meaning) persons of faith, and the results have been disastrous.
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.»
Why is being bigoted toward homosexuals the one people latch onto?