Homosexuality
Homosexality
It is one of the controversial in the world of today whether to promote this unnatural phenomenom. Certainly it is something unreasonable to consider such a thing. It is an abuse of human sexuality which is from God.When one thus says that it should be promoted it means that that person is totally out of nature.
HOMOSEXUALITY
1.0 WHAT IS HOMOSEXUALIY:
Homosexuality, sexual orientation toward people of the same sex. Homosexuality contrasts with heterosexuality, sexual orientation toward people of the opposite sex. People with a sexual orientation toward members of both sexes are called bisexuals. Female homosexuals are frequently called lesbians. In recent years, the term gay has been applied to both homosexual men and women.
Homosexuality appears in virtually all social contexts—within different community settings, socioeconomic levels, and ethnic and religious groups. The number of homosexuals in the population is difficult to determine, and reliable data do not exist. However, current estimates suggest that the term homosexual may apply to 2 to 4 percent of men. Estimates for lesbians are lower. Not all people who engage in homosexual activity necessarily identify
At different times and in different cultures, homosexual behaviour has been variously approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexuality was not uncommon in ancient Greece and Rome, and the relationships between adult and adolescent males in particular have become a chief focus of Western classicists in recent years. Judeo-Christian as well as Muslim cultures have generally perceived homosexual behaviour as sinful. Many Jewish and Christian leaders, however, have gone to great lengths to make clear that it is the acts and not the individuals or even their “inclination” or “orientation” that their faiths proscribe. Others—from factions within mainstream Protestantism to organizations of Reform rabbis—have advocated, on theological as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relationships. The topic has threatened to cause outright schisms in some denominations.
2.0 HISTORICAL AND CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES:
Attitudes toward homosexual behavior have varied with time and place. In ancient Greece, homosexual relations were accepted and, in some cases, expected activity in certain segments of society. Later attitudes toward homosexuality in the Western world were determined largely by prevailing Judeo-Christian moral codes, which treat homosexuality as immoral or sinful. But like many other sins, homosexual relations were seen as expressions of the weakness inherent in all human beings, and not as a mental disorder or as the behavior of a specific type of person. This latter view, which regarded homosexuality as a pathology, developed in the late 19th century. By the beginning of the 20th century, psychoanalysts viewed homosexuals as the victims of faulty development. Austrian physician Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, considered homosexuality a deviant condition. More recently, scientists have searched for a biological explanation of sexual orientation. A study published in 1993 sought to identify a genetic marker for sexual orientation. The research, which did not include a cross section of the population, was inconclusive.
During the first half of the 20th century, attitudes toward homosexuality were overwhelmingly negative. Homosexual activities were hidden and spoken of only in whispers, and homosexual behavior, even among consenting adults, was a criminal offense in most of the United States. Homosexuals were subject to stereotypes and prejudice. Gay men were viewed as effeminate, lesbians were portrayed as mannish, and both were seen as being obsessed with sex, with little self-control or morality. Homosexuals frequently were thought to be potential child molesters. In the 1930s and during World War II (1939-1945), homosexuals were targets of persecution in Nazi Germany.
SAME SEX UNION AND GAY MARRIAGE:
In the 1990s and 2000s homosexual rights groups addressed a number of other issues, including the rights of gay and lesbian families. In 2001 The Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriages, giving same-sex couples the same rights that heterosexual couples have in areas such as inheritance, taxes, divorce, and pension benefits. Belgium legalized same-sex marriages in 2003. Spain and Canada followed suit in 2005. Canada became the fourth nation to legalize same-sex marriage and the first outside of Europe. Several other European countries recognize homosexual unions, although these unions are generally called civil unions or registered partnerships rather than marriages. The United Kingdom, for example, permitted civil partnerships beginning in December 2005. The same month the Constitutional Court of South Africa struck down the country’s Marriage Act as unconstitutional because it did not permit same-sex marriage. The court stayed its ruling for one year to allow parliament to amend the act, but it stipulated that the ruling would go into effect regardless by December 2006. In December 2006 South Africa became the fifth country to legalize gay marriage.
In the United States, 39 states have passed laws forbidding same-sex marriages and denying recognition of same-sex marriages obtained elsewhere. In 2004, 13 states—most of which already prohibited such marriages by law—enacted constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriages, joining four other states that had previously done so. Gay couples can legally marry in only one state in the United States, the state of Massachusetts. Three states—Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont—permit civil unions, which extend the same legal rights of marriage to same-sex couples that heterosexual couples have under state law. Vermont legalized civil unions in 2000, Connecticut did so in 2005, and New Jersey in 2006. In addition California state law extends full marriage rights to domestic partnerships.
In November 2003 the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the state’s highest court, ruled that gay couples have the right to marry under the state’s constitution. In February 2004 the court clarified its ruling, saying that civil unions were not sufficient and that only marriage met its criteria for equal rights for gays. The court ruled that “the history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal,” in affirming that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights of marriage as heterosexuals. On May 17, 2004, same-sex marriages became legal in Massachusetts, and authorities there began to marry gay couples. State legislators pledged to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage but allow civil unions. Such an amendment would require voter approval.
A growing number of local governments and private corporations have implemented domestic partnership laws or policies that extend some of the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples. Generally, however, homosexual couples in long-term relationships do not have the same legal protection as people in heterosexual marriages. Under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, for example, many federal marriage benefits, such as tax breaks and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid provisions, are denied to gay couples. Adopting children is also problematic for homosexuals. One state, Florida, has laws that explicitly prohibit homosexuals from adopting children. Other states, such as Utah, have administrative rules that prohibit adoptions by unmarried couples, which would preclude gays. Other states allow a same-sex partner to adopt the biological child of the other partner. The vast majority of states do not explicitly prohibit gay couples from adopting. New Hampshire is one of the few states that explicitly allows gay couples to adopt.
HOW TO AVOID HOMOSEXUALITY:
It is natural that people can be attracted to themselves, and it is more existing in the heterosexual relationship where the two parties are of different sex. Though on rare cases ,we can see or observe that intimacy which exist in people of same sex. Yes that is true but is still unnatural that those two admirants should engage in sex. That is to say trying to do exactly what is done in the other form of sexuality. Such are rampart especially at the youthful stage where you do not want impregnate a girl and choose to do such to do that so that you can still enjoy sexually satisfaction. To resist from that,
a. on a moral side, one should see that it goes against the law of God.
b. On psychological dimension. it will certainly affect the person’s way of life. People who does in one way or the other are in conflict with their sexual life so they find difficult to be with their senses.
c. On a spiritual way, it makes bad to carry on as a value for it is strongly against the spirit of the people.
d. This phenomenon is absolutely contrasted to the theory of physical magnet which is said “unlike pole attracts, like poles repels. It goes a way to state that ay physical material has in its capability of attracting opposite material of same nature and repelling same material of same nature.
CONCLUSION:
Those things enlisted above shows that there is no gain in this game, even cannot offer full pleasure with that same sex.
THINK ABOUT IT…………………………………AND RETRESS YOUR STEP IF YOU ONE OF THEM
CONTINUE NEXT TIME
It is one of the controversial in the world of today whether to promote this unnatural phenomenom. Certainly it is something unreasonable to consider such a thing. It is an abuse of human sexuality which is from God.When one thus says that it should be promoted it means that that person is totally out of nature. HOMOSEXUALITY
1.0 WHAT IS HOMOSEXUALIY:
Homosexuality, sexual orientation toward people of the same sex. Homosexuality contrasts with heterosexuality, sexual orientation toward people of the opposite sex. People with a sexual orientation toward members of both sexes are called bisexuals. Female homosexuals are frequently called lesbians. In recent years, the term gay has been applied to both homosexual men and women.
Homosexuality appears in virtually all social contexts—within different community settings, socioeconomic levels, and ethnic and religious groups. The number of homosexuals in the population is difficult to determine, and reliable data do not exist. However, current estimates suggest that the term homosexual may apply to 2 to 4 percent of men. Estimates for lesbians are lower. Not all people who engage in homosexual activity necessarily identify
At different times and in different cultures, homosexual behaviour has been variously approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexuality was not uncommon in ancient Greece and Rome, and the relationships between adult and adolescent males in particular have become a chief focus of Western classicists in recent years. Judeo-Christian as well as Muslim cultures have generally perceived homosexual behaviour as sinful. Many Jewish and Christian leaders, however, have gone to great lengths to make clear that it is the acts and not the individuals or even their “inclination” or “orientation” that their faiths proscribe. Others—from factions within mainstream Protestantism to organizations of Reform rabbis—have advocated, on theological as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relationships. The topic has threatened to cause outright schisms in some denominations.
2.0 HISTORICAL AND CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES:
Attitudes toward homosexual behavior have varied with time and place. In ancient Greece, homosexual relations were accepted and, in some cases, expected activity in certain segments of society. Later attitudes toward homosexuality in the Western world were determined largely by prevailing Judeo-Christian moral codes, which treat homosexuality as immoral or sinful. But like many other sins, homosexual relations were seen as expressions of the weakness inherent in all human beings, and not as a mental disorder or as the behavior of a specific type of person. This latter view, which regarded homosexuality as a pathology, developed in the late 19th century. By the beginning of the 20th century, psychoanalysts viewed homosexuals as the victims of faulty development. Austrian physician Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, considered homosexuality a deviant condition. More recently, scientists have searched for a biological explanation of sexual orientation. A study published in 1993 sought to identify a genetic marker for sexual orientation. The research, which did not include a cross section of the population, was inconclusive.
During the first half of the 20th century, attitudes toward homosexuality were overwhelmingly negative. Homosexual activities were hidden and spoken of only in whispers, and homosexual behavior, even among consenting adults, was a criminal offense in most of the United States. Homosexuals were subject to stereotypes and prejudice. Gay men were viewed as effeminate, lesbians were portrayed as mannish, and both were seen as being obsessed with sex, with little self-control or morality. Homosexuals frequently were thought to be potential child molesters. In the 1930s and during World War II (1939-1945), homosexuals were targets of persecution in Nazi Germany.
SAME SEX UNION AND GAY MARRIAGE:
In the 1990s and 2000s homosexual rights groups addressed a number of other issues, including the rights of gay and lesbian families. In 2001 The Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriages, giving same-sex couples the same rights that heterosexual couples have in areas such as inheritance, taxes, divorce, and pension benefits. Belgium legalized same-sex marriages in 2003. Spain and Canada followed suit in 2005. Canada became the fourth nation to legalize same-sex marriage and the first outside of Europe. Several other European countries recognize homosexual unions, although these unions are generally called civil unions or registered partnerships rather than marriages. The United Kingdom, for example, permitted civil partnerships beginning in December 2005. The same month the Constitutional Court of South Africa struck down the country’s Marriage Act as unconstitutional because it did not permit same-sex marriage. The court stayed its ruling for one year to allow parliament to amend the act, but it stipulated that the ruling would go into effect regardless by December 2006. In December 2006 South Africa became the fifth country to legalize gay marriage.
In the United States, 39 states have passed laws forbidding same-sex marriages and denying recognition of same-sex marriages obtained elsewhere. In 2004, 13 states—most of which already prohibited such marriages by law—enacted constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriages, joining four other states that had previously done so. Gay couples can legally marry in only one state in the United States, the state of Massachusetts. Three states—Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont—permit civil unions, which extend the same legal rights of marriage to same-sex couples that heterosexual couples have under state law. Vermont legalized civil unions in 2000, Connecticut did so in 2005, and New Jersey in 2006. In addition California state law extends full marriage rights to domestic partnerships.
In November 2003 the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the state’s highest court, ruled that gay couples have the right to marry under the state’s constitution. In February 2004 the court clarified its ruling, saying that civil unions were not sufficient and that only marriage met its criteria for equal rights for gays. The court ruled that “the history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal,” in affirming that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights of marriage as heterosexuals. On May 17, 2004, same-sex marriages became legal in Massachusetts, and authorities there began to marry gay couples. State legislators pledged to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage but allow civil unions. Such an amendment would require voter approval.
A growing number of local governments and private corporations have implemented domestic partnership laws or policies that extend some of the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples. Generally, however, homosexual couples in long-term relationships do not have the same legal protection as people in heterosexual marriages. Under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, for example, many federal marriage benefits, such as tax breaks and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid provisions, are denied to gay couples. Adopting children is also problematic for homosexuals. One state, Florida, has laws that explicitly prohibit homosexuals from adopting children. Other states, such as Utah, have administrative rules that prohibit adoptions by unmarried couples, which would preclude gays. Other states allow a same-sex partner to adopt the biological child of the other partner. The vast majority of states do not explicitly prohibit gay couples from adopting. New Hampshire is one of the few states that explicitly allows gay couples to adopt.
HOW TO AVOID HOMOSEXUALITY:
It is natural that people can be attracted to themselves, and it is more existing in the heterosexual relationship where the two parties are of different sex. Though on rare cases ,we can see or observe that intimacy which exist in people of same sex. Yes that is true but is still unnatural that those two admirants should engage in sex. That is to say trying to do exactly what is done in the other form of sexuality. Such are rampart especially at the youthful stage where you do not want impregnate a girl and choose to do such to do that so that you can still enjoy sexually satisfaction. To resist from that,
a. on a moral side, one should see that it goes against the law of God.
b. On psychological dimension. it will certainly affect the person’s way of life. People who does in one way or the other are in conflict with their sexual life so they find difficult to be with their senses.
c. On a spiritual way, it makes bad to carry on as a value for it is strongly against the spirit of the people.
d. This phenomenon is absolutely contrasted to the theory of physical magnet which is said “unlike pole attracts, like poles repels. It goes a way to state that ay physical material has in its capability of attracting opposite material of same nature and repelling same material of same nature.
CONCLUSION:
Those things enlisted above shows that there is no gain in this game, even cannot offer full pleasure with that same sex.
THINK ABOUT IT…………………………………AND RETRESS YOUR STEP IF YOU ONE OF THEM
CONTINUE NEXT TIME
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