If we control for education, however, we find that in each of the four decades, teachers are from 10 to 15 percentage points less likely than other Americans with 16 or more years of schooling to see nothing
wrong with homosexuality (see Figure 2).
This is an important point, for, while we have often taught what is
wrong with homosexuality, why it is a disorder and that «gay sex» is always morally wrong - we have been less effective at proposing the whole, positive vision of sex and love, and also what paths to fulfilment are open to people who experience same - sex attraction.
Not exact matches
Otherwise,
with only your quote from above to go on, it seems that you would agree that if a given society, such as Uganda, or a tribe within Uganda, has agreed that
homosexuality is ethically inadmissable, then the individuals within that society would be
wrong to dissent from what has been generally accepted by social contract and common consent?
As an example of something that is genetic and natural but which we would all say is
wrong: alcoholism (this isn't an attempt to put
homosexuality with alcoholism; it is simply an attempt to create a class of behavior which we would all easily agree is both natural, genetic, and
wrong).
If the non-believer who is proud, fully desiring, and un-receptive of practicing their sin of
homosexuality and they love being around the believer then that would make me question what's
wrong with that believer because the scripture says; «Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted — 2 Timothy 3:12, No proudly practicing sinner of any kind will stay
with a believer very long just ask Liz
Of course you're entitled to your own belief that
homosexuality is
wrong, much though I would disagree
with you.
This week's Twitter outrage over Eugene Peterson's comments on
homosexuality and the Church is an all - too - timely example of just how much havoc we can wreak on our own hearts when we engage
with this culture in the
wrong way.
This principle is applied by Barth and others in such a way as to place
homosexuality in the
wrong when contrasted
with heterosexuality.
I do of course think there was «something
wrong with society at large» when
homosexuality was barred; and still a problem for liberal autonomy when it was legal but very widely abhorred stereotyped, discriminated against and discouraged.