Christianity And Sexual Orientation
Christian denominations have a variety of beliefs about sexual orientation, including the moral status of same-sex sexual practices and gender variance. Denominations differ in the way they treat LGBT people; variously, LGBT people may be barred from membership, accepted as laity, or ordained as priests, depending on the denomination.
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Famous quotes containing the words christianity and, christianity and/or orientation:
“I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them—I can write in letters which make even the blind see ... I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty—I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind....”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)