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The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America, the highest Orthodox Christian representative body in the Americas, reaffirmed in a statement in September 2013 that "the Orthodox Christian teaching on marriage and sexuality, firmly grounded in Holy Scripture, two millennia of Church Tradition, and Canon Law, holds that ...
Cardinal Oswald Gracias condemned "all forms of unjust discrimination, harassment or abuse" against LGBTQ people. [ 19 ] In various countries, members of the Catholic Church have intervened on occasions both to support efforts to decriminalize homosexuality, and also to ensure it remains an offence under criminal law.
The authors of the New Testament had their roots in the Jewish tradition, which is commonly interpreted as prohibiting homosexuality.A more conservative biblical interpretation contends "the most authentic reading of [Romans] 1:26–27 is that which sees it prohibiting homosexual activity in the most general of terms, rather than in respect of more culturally and historically specific forms of ...
The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [3] [4] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, [3] [4] including autoeroticism ...
The fight to elevate Christianity while restricting LGBTQ and transgender rights in schools is the focus of “Grapevine,” a new narrative podcast by NBC News Studios.
[309] The American Humanist Association provides an LGBT Humanist Pride award [310] and has funded an LGBT-inclusive prom for Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Mississippi. [311] The organisation LGBT Humanists UK "is a United Kingdom-based not-for-profit that campaigns for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality and ...
In response to the strong belief that marriage and sex are the primary or exclusive forms of deep commitment, [36] some Side B Christians point to the example of the love between David and Jonathan as an example of a nonmarital and nonsexual form of deep commitment between two people of the same sex. While spiritual friendship is also viable ...
Read in cultural context, the Bible "was not addressing our current questions about sexual ethics and does not condemn gay sex [or gay marriage]s as we understand it today." [40] Helminiak argues that Biblical passages said to be against homosexuality (and same-sex marriages) do not actually say anything against gay and lesbian sexual ...