Sentences with phrase «which homosexual persons»

Let me add that my biblical vision of the world, in which justice is a central principle, leads me naturally to condemn and to fight strongly against the physical and verbal attacks of which homosexual persons are victims, in the same way that I strongly condemn and fight against racist and anti-Semitic speeches and deeds.

No authentic pastoral programme will include organisations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral... All support should be withdrawn from any organisations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely.

Not exact matches

Many people already know about the Kinsey scale, the near - ubiquitous system that allows people to gauge their sexuality on a sliding scale, which revealed that people do not always fit exclusively into heterosexual or homosexual categories.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

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).

Note well that the homosexual person, in living chastely, is in a most noble way doing something profoundly positive: by not misusing his sexuality he is respectfully acknowledging that ultimately our generative faculties are not ours to use as we please; the sacred interplay is God's territory wherein we participate, not over which we arbitrate.

I read two articles last year (which I didn't document, like you, thinking it was out of the question) about pedophiles making the exact same argument as the present day argument that homosexuals have taken from the cause of the Black people; «they were born that way.»

But I also say that people who choose other lifestyles, heterosexual or homosexual, should be accepted, just as atheists and libertarians are accepted, in the hope that they will come to faith in Jesus which will presumably involve repentance.

More than 600 people signed a petition urging the cinema chain to cancel the private showing of the film which tells the stories of 15 people «emerging out of homosexual lifestyles».

It will be the Church which defends the dignity of all persons when the levers of power move from the present hegemony that favours the homosexual lobby to another hegemony that may just as easily not.

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

It was, in fact, the independent realisation (confirmed by scholarship), when doing a word search on «Sodom», that Sodom is incorrectly used to condemn homosexuality which led me to question the treatment of homosexual people.

I know several homosexual people, and frankly, there are numerous ways of living which are WAY more destructive, in my opinion.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

The traditional position has been that since every homosexual act is sinful and contrary to God's plan, the love that exists between gay people is a sinful love which alienates the lovers from God.

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.»

Persons choosing homosexual acts are not speaking the «language of the body,» in which the body itself is integral to their union as bodily beings.

Therefore, homosexual acts damage «the body's capacity for the marital act as an act of self - giving which constitutes a communion of bodily persons.»

Earlier this year, the General Synod held discussions on a controversial report concerning sexuality which backed traditional marriage but also called for «maximum freedom» for homosexual people.

The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.

We are expecting untrained people to accomplish something that not even the experts in the field have done, at least in those cases in which the homosexual orientation can not definitely be traced to childhood trauma, fear of the other sex or other family - related problems.

The Roman Catholic church maintains this position, recently describing the homosexual orientation as an «objective disorder».15 In Protestant and Anglican churches, a distinction is now often made between a homosexual orientation and homosexual genital acts; the orientation is part of some people's God - given make - up and not something for which they should be condemned.

The decision to declassify homosexuality was accompanied by the passage of an APA Position Statement, which supported the protection of the civil rights of homosexual persons.

His resignation comes on the heels of a controversial post on his website, sakeenah.org, in which he claimed that «an enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life.»

Which all leads to the fact that a significant number people in Russia realise how pointless it is and don't vote (unless they were swayed by the vile / hilarious advert warning against not voting in case you're conscripted or forced to have sex with irritating homosexuals).

A 2010 Supreme Court ruling stated that «to compel a homosexual person to pretend that his sexuality does not exist or suppress the behaviour by which to manifest itself is to deny his fundamental right to be who he is.»

What is the mindset of the people who support equal civil rights for homosexuals but disagree with Obergefell v. Hodges because it redefines the word «marriage», which they believe is a sacred thing...

Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the bill which is before parliament proposes tougher sentences for people convicted.

Article 10 (1)(d) of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third - country nationals or Stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted must be interpreted as meaning that the existence of criminal laws, such as those at issue in each of the cases in the main proceedings, which specifically target homosexuals, supports the finding that those persons must be regarded as forming a particular social group.

Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which acted for Gareth Lee, the customer, in Lee v Ashers [2016] MOR 10086, said the court had «ruled out a suggestion which had been made as part of the appeal, that anti-discrimination laws treat less favourably people who share a religious belief concerning the sinful nature of homosexual activity».

There was a fundamental difference between, on the one hand, offering something lawful to which a person was not automatically entitled in law (such as the acceptance of pleas to fewer or lesser offences with a consequent reduction in sentence or assistance towards repatriation) and, on the other hand, threatening something unlawful against which the person would normally have legal protection (such as an irremediably unlawful sentence or, as in the Cobb case, homosexual rape).

After all, as a result of the TWU decision a TWU graduate could become a teacher with no further training outside of the TWU environment (which training might allow the BCCT to screen out people who might discriminate against homosexuals).