Survivors of ‘ex-gay’ programs explain how they too once believed their sexual orientation had changed only to realize later a genuine change had not occurred. [Continue Reading]
Does the Bible tell us so? Homosexuality and Scripture
1 April 2007
By Roger Juline, Science of Mind
Pastoral Guidelines – Homosexuality
1 January 2007
While a person’s sexuality is a very important part of their lives, it does not define who they are. Biblically we as a church maintain that a person is defined in the first instance in terms of their relationship to God – creation in relation to Creator. To refer to a person as a homosexual, a lesbian or a heterosexual is therefore to narrow their identity to their sexuality alone. For this reason it seems better to refer to ‘people’ who have ‘same sex attraction’. [Continue Reading]
New booklet: “Civil Partnerships: a guide for Christians”
1 January 2006
The Anglican organisation Affirming Catholicism has published a booklet calling on the Church to welcome civil partnerships as a pastoral opportunity and a means of listening to the experience of lesbian and gay Christians. In a foreword to the booklet, the Very Rev’d Dr Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, thanks God for the legislation which came into effect in England and Wales on 21 December 2005. He says that same-sex couples who commit their lives to each other ‘are expressing the deepest and most godlike instinct in human nature’. [Continue Reading]
Human Sexuality: A Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of the Church of Ireland
1 September 2003
Society is experiencing the breakdown of national, community and inter-personal relationships on a scale that none of us has experienced before. The problem is made more difficult because there is no universally agreed standard, religious or secular, social or ethical, by which to order our affairs. One aspect of life in which this brokenness is most personally and painfully experienced is in the realm of human sexuality. [Continue Reading]
Video: David Norris, Chairman of the Gay Rights Movement, interviewed by RTE in 1975
1 March 1975
One of Senator David Norris’ first appearances on RTÉ Television 40 years ago, the first interview with an openly gay person on RTÉ Television. [Continue Reading]
