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	Quakers Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality
		Whatever the sexual mores of the time may be, and whatever adolescent peers may do or say, it is important for parents to help their children look past peer pressure toward what contributes to loving, responsible relationships.
		At all stages of life, sexuality is an important part of that whole; it is capable of tapping an individual's deepest feelings, often yielding a sense of dimension transcending the individual.
		We recognize that responsible sexuality varies, and we hold that that which is of God is not to be condemned by the children of God.
	www.quaker.org /sexuality/FPExcerpts.htm (5400 words)

	Quaker views of homosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The views of Quakers toward homosexuality has a dramatic range from complete acceptance and celebration of same-sex marriages, to viewing homosexuality as abhorrent and sinful.
		In general, since Quaker decision making is generally based on a consensus method termed "unity" or "sense of the meeting", the number of individual Quakers who support equality for homosexuals is probably larger than the number of groups which have taken official stances would indicate.
		Quakers in the United States of America are divided on the issue of homosexuality, with the majority (mostly Friends affiliated with programmed meetings) not approving of either homosexuality or the legalisation of same sex union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quaker_views_of_homosexuality (931 words)

	Sexual morality
		Sexual morality refers to the beliefs and practices by which a culture, group, faith, etc. regulates their members' behaviour in matter of sexual activities.
		Judaism has historically viewed homosexuality as a grave sin; in recent years some of the more liberal Jewish denominations have begun rethinking this understanding for various reasons; this topic is discussed separately in the entry on Jewish views of homosexuality.
		Islamic law allows all forms of sexual relations between husband and wife, except when the wife is menstruating, and forbids anal sex as well (although the Shia sect allows it).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sexual_morality (2250 words)

	Quakers in Britain - Frequently Asked Questions
		Quakers have no set creed or dogma - that means we do not have any declared statements which you have to believe to be a Quaker.
		Quakers are active in the fields of peace, justice, world development, education, homelessness, prison reform and working to challenge prejudice in whatever form it occurs.
		Quakers have a reputation for being rather grey and dour, which is based on Quakerism in the 18th century.
	www.quaker.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=89744&int1stParentNodeID=89726&int2ndParentNodeID=89841&int3rdParentNodeID=89744 (707 words)

	QEW : Population - A Witness on Sexuality for Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While the average age of marriage is increasing in almost all populations in the world, sexual intercourse outside of marriage is also increasing.
		Joint decision-making of couples regarding sexuality, family planning, and fertility behaviors is a natural extension of our beliefs.
		Therefore, the separation of sexual intercourse and reproduction via contraception is appropriate.
	www.fcun.org /population/sex.html (713 words)

	The New Quaker: Selected Links [Expandable]
		Quaker House - Quaker House of Fayetteville, NC, is a witness of the peace testimony of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
		Quakers Uniting in Publications - QUIP is an international network of over 50 Friends organizations and individuals concerned with the ministry of the written word.
		Quaker WebRing - Links sites with a Quaker (as in the Religious Society of Friends) interest, owned by people who are attenders or members at Quaker meetings, and with themes that cover the Quaker movement, spirituality, peace issues, social action, history, Quaker businesses, but always in the context of the Quaker movement.
	newquaker.com /links.htm (4057 words)

	"Sex is not a shortcut to spirituality:" Liberal Quakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In retrospect what seems most striking about American Friends views of sexuality in the 1950s is the emphasis upon the family and the assumption that sex education would not change traditional teachings about sex before marriage.
		Some of the Quakers who viewed freeing sex from repressive morality as a liberation, a celebration of God's creation, believed it was better to error on the side of permissiveness.
		For example, Bayard Rustin, a birthright Quaker and a leader in the peace and civil rights movements, an employee of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the AFSC, was a close associate of A.J. Muste, an esteemed radical pacifist who had beginning in the 1920s taught Friends the value of demonstrations and civil disobedience.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/Sex.htm (10610 words)

	Quakers in Britain - Sexual Morality
		Although there is no authoritative statement issued by Quakers it would be safe to say that most Quakers feel that pornography degrades women and contributes to a climate that oppresses and exploits them.
		Quakers are challenged to make sure that our Quaker meetings are safe, supportive, non-judgmental and loving places for those amongst us whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS.
		Quakers believe that there is that of God in everyone and we try to express that belief in practice.
	www.quaker.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90275 (1555 words)

	Quaker Universalist Fellowship Homepage
		Although the whole phenomenon of Mariology is usually considered quite foreign to Quakerism, there might be some similarity, at least, between the two, inasmuch as in our Friends tradition, too, a lowly and peasant people claimed to have found that they had openings to divine things that did not require the mediation of learned clerics.
		Quaker weddings contain what is, for us, much ritual: a the reading of the certificate, its solemn circulation from committee member to committee member for signing, the good natured stampede by all present to affix their signatures at the rise of meeting.
		Sheeran’s view, in contrast to Brinton’s, seems to be that the yearly meetings gradually achieved hegemony over monthly meetings, although he reports this change with an air of regret at the loss of the free movement of the Spirit which to him, it implies.
	www.universalistfriends.org /seeger-91.html (10533 words)

	Quaker decline
		Quakers are flaccidly playing out the scenario of Mao's cultural revolution; Pol Pot's attack on the intelligentsia, and the 1960's Revolutionary Socialistsix, which last is probably the direct source of the nonsense.
		That is, today's Quaker lacks the concept of information which is not an expression of the psyche of him who holds that information.
		Quakers believe that the process of acting as a channel for transmitting factual information (even as chairman of a meeting) implies the channel has taken a position on the information3.
	www.ivorcatt.com /2903.htm (7155 words)

	Quaker views of homosexuality
		Quakers are divided on the issue of homosexuality.
		Because Quaker decision making is based on a consensus method termed "unity" or "sense of the meeting", the number of individual Quakers who support equality for homosexuals is probably larger than the number of groups which support it would indicate.
		Perhaps because of the Quaker history of tolerance, there is no outright condemnation of homosexual people by any mainstream Quaker-identified group.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/q/qu/quaker_views_of_homosexuality.html (180 words)

	QLGF Quakers
		Quakers have always believed that there is 'that of God' in every human being.
		The book maintained that it was not the gender or sexual orientation of the people concerned in a relationship that mattered, but the depth of feeling they have for each other.
		Quakers use 'queries' as a way of helping them recognise and confront assumptions, prejudices and fears in a variety of contexts.
	www.qlgf.org.uk /quakers.htm (585 words)

	Quaker Epistemology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To what extent are humans determined by their sexual biology and to what extent are humans created by the social construction of gender.(7) This is the old nature-nurture debate.
		Epistemology, in this postmodern view, is thwarted by an absence of agreement on the foundational justifications of belief, a conflict on how to weigh various types of evidence, and the finite limitations on our ability to provide justification for our beliefs.(12) What we have is not a single mode of rationality, but multiple rationalities.
		Indeed, this needed compilation of a theory of Quaker epis temology becomes paradigmatic of our theory of truth -seeking, because the truth is not point specific in space and time, nor is truth the sole domain of any individual or group.
	www.voicenet.com /~grassie/Fldr.Articles/Quaker.html (2404 words)

	Anglican views of homosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the thirteenth Lambeth Conference in 1998 it was decided that ordaining non-celibate gay clergy was "incompatible with Scripture" by a vote of 526-70; however it also contained a statement declaring this policy would not be the final word and research would continue.
		Other resolutions passed include "Issues in Human Sexuality" which was approved in 1991 stating stable same-sex relationships are acceptable for laypersons but not for clergy.
		To discriminate against our sisters and brothers who are lesbian or gay on grounds of their sexual orientation for me is as totally unacceptable and unjust as Apartheid ever was.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglican_views_of_homosexuality (2349 words)

	Warren Throckmorton » Blog Archive » Racism on You Tube revisited
		This entry was posted on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Cultural news, Media and society, Religion and sexuality, politics, sexual identity, sexual orientation.
		The “brainwashing” was taking place in Cambridge Friends School, a Quaker school, where parents pay to have their children receive an education based on the religious principles of the Society of Friends (the Quakers).
		Quakers generally believe that God wishes them to include gay and lesbian people as equal children of God.
	wthrockmorton.com /2007/04/30/racism-on-you-tube-revisited (1143 words)

	William Shakespeare Homework, Homework Help, Home work Services, Homework Assignments, Homework Helper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and England it was viewed as the foundation of commercial prosperity and a key element of government policy.
		Quakers (members of the Society of Friends), decisions about whether to support or oppose the war were further complicated by the inherent conflict between two deeply held beliefs: their pacifist principles and their desire to protect and support the colony founded by William Penn (Carroll, 1970).
		This meant that Quakers should not vote or take oaths of loyalty to support either side, should not engage in combat or pay for a substitute (a not uncommon practice in that era), and should not pay taxes to support the war effort.
	www.homeworkjunction.com /homework-on-william-shakespeare.shtml (4320 words)

	User talk:Alex S - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Way back in March you turned the article Quaker views of sexuality into a redirect to Sexual morality, which seems odd since that article doesn't appear to have anything to say about Quakers.
		In that page (Quaker views of sexuality), the content was completely about homosexuality.
		What I did was move the content to Quaker views of homosexuality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Alex_S (3865 words)

	Sex & Sexuality Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The feminists' attitude toward themselves was largely a manifestation of the Quaker background many of them shared and of Garrison's influence in maintaining that the individual must act according to his conscience and be held rigidly accountable for his actions.
		Quakers at that time repudiated political action, often ostracizing those members who engaged in it.
		With the cry of "no taxation without representation" still echoing from the recent past, government was viewed as requiring the consent of its citizens.
	www.mondopolitico.com /discus/messages/77/995.html?1056135256 (2352 words)

	Christian views of homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Many traditionalists view homosexual behavior as a freely made choice, and believe that it is possible and desirable to make a transition to heterosexuality.
		The church campaigned starting in 1977 to have the federal government add sexual orientation to federal non-discrimination laws, which was accomplished in 1996.
		On July 17 2003 it clarified its 1982 position when the national Assembly meeting stated that people had interpreted the scriptures with integrity in coming to the view that a practicing homosexual person in a committed same sex relationship could be ordained as a minister.
	www.portaljuice.com /christian_views_of_homosexuality.html (1986 words)

	Quaker views of sexuality
		Because of the nature of Quaker decision making, the number of Quakers who support equality for homosexuals is larger, and perhaps significantly larger than the preceding statement would indicate.
		However, the Friends United Meeting[?] and Evangelical Friends International[?], which represent programmed Quaker meetings, have taken official stands condemning homosexuality.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qu/Quaker_views_of_sexuality.html (98 words)

	International Gay & Lesbian Review: Congregations in Conflict: The Battle Over Homosexuality
		In addition, Quakers do not typically grapple with particular issues until their own meeting is confronted with one.
		In 1987 five meetings held gay or lesbian “marriages”—one of which was expelled until it agreed to drop the word “marriage.”; In the summer of 1990 Roxanne Seagraves and Cris South asked to be married under the care of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting.
		First of all, each denomination holds different views on homosexuality; second, within denominations there exist differing opinions on the issue; and third, that which seems grounded in ideology is not always reflected in practice.
	gaybookreviews.info /review/2581/568 (3449 words)

	Teachings on Chastity and Premarital Sex in All Faiths -- Beliefnet.com
		However, sex is viewed as "the generative force in nature and is seen by most pagans as something utterly sacred.
		Hinduism holds this view not because it regards sex as inherently sinful, but because of this belief in certain life stages.
		The ELCA church's position on promiscuity states that "having casual sexual relations is sinful because this does not proceed from or contribute to respect, intimacy, and care of the other.
	www.beliefnet.com /features/chastity_chart.html (757 words)

	About the Quaker Peace Centre
		The Quaker Peace Centre arose out of a concern of the Cape Western Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for the people affected by forced removals and apartheid.
		The Quaker Peace Centre mainly works in the townships in the Cape Town Metropole, a creation of the legacy of apartheid.
		The Quaker Peace Centre has a Resource Room which acts as an information centre where staff and others can make enquiries regarding new publications, as well as existing library material, relating to their particular work.
	www.quaker.org /capetown/aboutqpc.htm (1573 words)

	Religion and homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There are various sub-articles giving the views of different faiths on homosexuality:
		Some religious people (often considered extremists) who consider homosexuality a sin interpret AIDS as a punishment exacted by God for homosexual behavior, the concept that AIDS is a "gay plague".
		Other religions do not have a theological problem with homosexuality, and do not believe that it is inherently sinful.
	usapedia.com /r/religion-and-homosexuality.html (224 words)

	About at The Seed Lifting Up
		This blog is about spirituality that is grounded in evidence and personal experience rather than dogmatic beliefs or traditions, and that is more or less in tune with the scientific spirit.
		In particular, I mostly write about the Society of Friends (aka Quakers), a community I’ve been a part of for the past five years.
		I also have a non-Quaker blog called EVOLT where I talk about politics, culture, etc. Politically I’m a sort of pragmatic post-anarchist progressive libertarian, and I think it’s important to be an activist but to not to be purist or anti-fun about it.
	gaq.quakerism.net /?page_id=8 (828 words)

	Sexual Abuse
		Sexual relationships should be consensual between partners who are developmentally, physically, and emotionally capable of understanding the interaction.
		Coerced and exploitative sexual acts and behaviors such as rape, incest, sexual relations between adults and children, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment are always reprehensible.
		This curriculum, which covers sexual abuse and harassment in six sessions, is designed to help teens distinguish between healthy sexuality and sexual abuse and violence.
	www.siecus.org /pubs/biblio/bibs0002.html (6172 words)

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