Gay tendency meaning
Homosexuality
Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have recognized that one of the chief sins involved in God’s destruction of Sodom was its people’s homosexual behavior. But today, certain homosexual activists promote the idea that the sin of Sodom was merely a lack of hospitality. Although inhospitality is a sin, it is clearly the homosexual behavior of the Sodomites that is singled out for special criticism in the account of their city’s destruction. We must look to Scripture’s own interpretation of the sin of Sodom.
Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah “acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust.” Ezekiel says that Sodom committed “abominable things” (Ezek. ), which could refer to lesbian and heterosexual acts of sin. Lot even offered his two virgin daughters in place of his guests, but the men of Sodom rejected the extend, preferring homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen. –9). But the Sodom incident is not the only time the Old Testament deals with homosexuality. An explicit condemnation is found in the book of Leviticus: “You shall not lie with a m
Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ
Definitions were drafted in collaboration with other U.S.-based LGBTQ society organizations and leaders. View acknowledgements section.
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LGBTQ
Acronym for queer woman , gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. The Q generally stands for queer when LGBTQ organizations, leaders, and media use the acronym. In settings offering sustain for youth, it can also stand for questioning. LGBT and LGBTQ+ are also used, with the + added in recognition of all non-straight, non-cisgender identities. (See Transgender Glossary ) Both are acceptable, as are other versions of thi
Keys to Recovery from Same-Sex Attractions
by: LHM Board
[Note: while we are confident that the following list is accurate, we are aware that it can be overwhelming. It would be like handing a newborn toddler a list of all the things he will contain to learn in the next five years: everything from learning to shift over, learning to walk, becoming potty-trained, learning to discuss, discovering hes not a part of his mommy, teaching how to obey, getting ready to read, going to school. . . like we said, overwhelming! This is the big picture of how to walk out the goal of recovery. Allow us to encourage you to continually ask the Lord, What one thing do You want me to do next? and then do it.]
1. Accept that its not going to be easy. Transform that challenges our known comfort zone is difficult and painful. You are changing not just one isolated behavior, but a collection of thoughts and behaviors that possess made up your relational pattern for a lifetime. An important component of recovery is switching the wrong creed about your persona, that this is me. This will take an unreal amount of e
What the Church teaches about homosexual inclinations
Reason, Faith and Homosexual Acts
John Finnis
Oxford University and University of Notre Dame
The Church “refuses to consider the person as a ‘heterosexual’ or a ‘homosexual’ and insists that every person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and, by grace, his child and heir to eternal life.”[1] Each person also has a “sexual identity”: either male or female, dude or woman.[2] The Church does not use the term “sexual identity” as some people do, who claim that people possess “sexual identities” as homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, and so forth. Instead, the Church teaches that each male should accept his sexual identity as a male, and each female her sexual identity as a woman; and that means accepting that one is different from and complementary to[3] – and equivalent in dignity with[4] -- persons of the antonym sex (gender).
The Church has sometimes spoken of “homosexual persons.” Anyone who has a “more or less strong tendency towards” sexual activity with a person or persons of the same sex can be