Not exact matches
Giving up genetic information means relinquishing an asset so
personal and
unchangeable that there is no going back, for you and for those closest to you.
Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever
unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a
personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.
So instead of valuing human experience their emphasis has been on the exercise of the intellect, on putting the doctrine straight — God is understood to be transcendent, wholly other,
unchangeable, hardly one who inspires a desire for a
personal relationship.
In contrast, Canadian law conceives of sexual orientation as «a deeply
personal characteristic that is either
unchangeable or changeable only at unacceptable
personal costs» (Egan v Canada, [1995] 2 SCR 513 at para 5).