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Execution by fire and torture of five homosexual Franciscan friars, Bruges, 26 July 1578

Catholic Church And Homosexuality

Catholic Church And Homosexuality This article covers the relationship between Catholic Church and homosexuality in detail. The “Catechism of the Catholic Church“ promulgated by Pope John Paul II considers sexual activity between members of the same sex to be a mortal sin against chastity. This teaching has developed through a number of ecumenical councils and the influence of theologians, including...

Detail from a Nepalese Kama Sutra manuscript. Photo courtesy the Wellcome Collection

Buddhism And Sexuality

Buddhism And Sexuality Although only a limited number of scholarly studies have appeared to date on the topic of Buddhism and sexuality, most concur, explicitly or implicitly, that teachings such as the ‘Sermon on Burning’ (Ādittapariyāya-sutta) from the Saṃyutta-nikāya (35.28) in which the Buddha warns his monks that sense perception...

Religious protest against homosexuality in San Francisco

Homosexuality And Religion

Homosexuality And Religion The relationship between religion and homosexuality has varied greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and denominations, with regard to different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality. Generally speaking as well as by denomination, the present-day doctrines of the world’s major religions vary vastly in...

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Free Love

Free Love Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love. The Free Love movement’s initial goal was to separate the state from sexual matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery. It claimed that such issues were the concern of the people involved, and no one else. Principles Much of...

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, John Martin, 1852

Sodom And Gomorrah

Sodom And Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five...

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The Commandments Are Compatible In The Torah And Quran

The Commandments Are Compatible In The Torah And Quran The prohibitions and commandments are compatible in the Torah and Quran. Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages....

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Don’t Impose Your Morality on Me!

Don’t Impose Your Morality on Me! “That might be your opinion, but don’t impose your morality on me!” When teaching about virtues and the moral life, I often think of a discussion I had with a college friend. He was taking an ethics class with a professor who promoted moral relativism the notion that there...