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	religion - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about religion
		A common factor in religions is the ascription to the God or gods of an interest in the behaviour of humans and their judgement of it as right or wrong, although the standards of morality attributed to gods vary enormously.
		Other related studies are the psychology of religion, which examines human states of mind under religious influence – for example, ecstasy, diabolic possession, and faith healing – and the possible causes of these states; and the philosophy of religion, which coincides to a large extent with natural theology.
		Religion may originate in pondering the unknown; in the need to explain phenomena that are not understood; in awe of natural forces; in a psychological need for outside support; in dreams and visions; or in the veneration of ancestors or clan totems.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /religion (580 words)

	God's Judgment on Heterosexuality a... - Crossroads of Religion - tribe.net
		It was soon found that stricter regulation of heterosexual tendencies was required, and the catholic church, in its wisdom, determined within a few centuries of its institutional life that bishops (and in the West, all clergy) should permanently abstain from all heterosexual activity.
		Similarly, heterosexual lobbyists have been hard at work mounting efforts to decriminalize heterosexual acts still forbidden by statute in many states, to lower the age of consent for sexual activity between persons of the opposite sex, and to legalize prostitution and the distribution of pornography.
		Heterosexuals are also fervent in their efforts to retain the special rights that they have managed to secure, rights not afforded to other citizens.
	religiouscrossroads.tribe.net /thread/03a7cb30-e0c7-40c7-938e-36d73e9df9f5 (5514 words)

	Comments
		It is the religion itself that must make a stand to not recognise this marriage on religious terms, but the church technically has no jurisdiction over a legal marriage - since marriages are considered legal even if they are not performed by the church.
		Religion really is one of those things you can either have both feet in, or none at all, even if many (if not most) prefer to straddle both sides.
		Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, Government and Religion living in unity is possible, but only in the most idealistic of minds.
	thegirl.blogdrive.com /comments?id=64 (2818 words)

	Religion and sexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the religion's teachings, the prohibition against sex outside of marriage is largely related to the prescribed life stages Hindus are bound to follow if they are to attain moksha (the same as the Buddhist concept of nirvana, or enlightenment of the soul).
		Neo-Pagan religions tend to be positive about sexuality, and are almost unanimous in their acceptance of same-sex relationships as equal to heterosexual ones.
		Most Neo-Pagan religions have the theme of fertility (both physical and creative/spiritual) as central to their practices, and as such encourage a healthy sex life, which is seen as consensual sex between adults, regardless of gender or age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_and_sexuality (4532 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PERSPECTIVES . Homosexuality and the Church . March 13, 1998 \| PBS
		The church must respond to the debates and challenges, and it takes place at a time that we've experienced 30 or 40 years of a sexual revolution in the larger society, and the church is trying to figure out how to respond to this crisis.
		We say to the heterosexual person, there are certain behaviors that are inconsistent with the Christian ethic.
		It seems to me the most natural analogy is not with alcoholism or with pedophilia, it is with heterosexuality, which is a neutral state of being, certain behaviors being acceptable and others not in the Christian ethic.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week128/perspectives.html (927 words)

	USATODAY.com - OPINION
		The truth is that mainstream religion has moved beyond animal sacrifice, slavery and the host of primitive rituals described in Leviticus centuries ago.
		Future religious believers will be asking themselves why religion would not accept that the world was round, why religion was used to justify slavery, why religion was used to ban interracial relationships, and why the world's religions condemned homosexuals and homosexuality.
		Religion always goes astray at the point it's practitioners begin to have so little faith in their god that they feel they must take God's matters into their own hands.
	blogs.usatoday.com /oped/2006/11/when_religion_l.html (13163 words)

	godgreedeve1.htm
		Heterosexuality, as it is defines in real terms, is "male-female bonding beyond any brief relationship, and sex beyond the natural act of procreation for recreational purposed".
		Heterosexuality can not thus be natural, especially in the biological sense, since recreational intercourse would lead to procreation if the condom (or 'pill') was not utilized.
		Heterosexuality as created by the religio-politician, as regards over-breeding, is a threat to all nature and ultimately ourselves.
	www.fortunecity.com /village/birdcage/91/godgreedeve2.htm (7792 words)

	Institute for Feminism and Religion - News
		The document states that feminism's apparent inability to acknowledge differences calls "into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and makes homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality".
		Surely, and especially in a contemporary AIDS environment, any human state that promotes love - celibate, religious community, heterosexual or homosexual - is preferable to one that promotes intolerance or hatred, not to mention infidelity, unsafe sex or the civil and legal instability of family units.
		Dr Mary Condren is a feminist theorist and theologian and director of the Institute for Feminism and Religion
	instituteforfeminismandreligion.org /picket.html (853 words)

	Changing a client's sexual orientation
		The gay activists argue that heterosexism -- the belief that heterosexuality is healthy and normal -- is a bigoted prejudice, perhaps even a symptom of the mental illness -- homophobia.
		"Since religion is one of the client attributes that mental health counselors are ethically bound to respect, counselors should take great care in advising those clients dissatisfied with same-gender sexual orientation due to their religious beliefs.
		Some such couples (as is true of some heterosexual couples) have explored relationships that admit the possibility of sexual intimacy with secondary partners.
	www.fathersforlife.org /dale/anti-religion_therapy.htm (1994 words)

	Religion News Service: Press Releases
		Further, the paper’s recommendations on treatment of gays and lesbians were framed in the context of broad Reconstructionist values, not formulated as an isolated response to a specific issue or problem.
		The endorsement, noting the logic of preceding policy statements, said action was needed to ensure that same-sex couples are not continually denied access to the benefits automatically bestowed by civil marriage, including health care coverage, privileges under immigration and naturalization law, inheritance rights, survivor benefits and child custody.
		We continue to hope that by our speaking out on out such issues, we can encourage all religions of the world to put behind them discriminatory behavior and hateful words, and instead follow the road of peace and compassion.
	www.religionnews.com /press02/PR120606B.html (844 words)

	MyDD :: Why Do Democrats Hate Religion?
		Religious people pretend that their religion is under attack any time people who don't believe in their fairy tales don't want to live their lives by the faithful's standards.
		This is the problem with many religious folks...whenever someone comes out and says they don't want religion to be the basis for laws in society, they have this knee-jerk reaction and pretend that someone just attacked their faith.
		The plain and obvious fact is that whatever your private religion, supernatural beliefs or superstitions, it must all be left outside the entrance to the public square because any policies we adopt as a people can only be based on our common faith......our faith in reason.
	mydd.com /story/2006/6/28/104440/256 (12917 words)

	Literature Reviews
		Although public discourse presents religion as opposing homosexuality, in actuality religious opinions on this topic are quite diverse.
		Sands posits that this new kind of discourse, where sexual diversity (heterosexual and homosexual, as well as monogamous and non-monogamous relations) is emphasized, can highlight the ways that such variety is in fact a social advantage (p.
		Sands hopes that a changed public landscape, where religious and non-religious progressives lucidly and continually proclaim their own ethics alongside religious and non-religious conservatives, can protect the rights of all citizens to engage in the public debate about sex and all matters of common social interest.
	www.brandeis.edu /projects/fse/Pages/literaturereviewsands.html (964 words)

	cava -- care, values and the future of welfare
		In these contexts we may identify the ways in which sport, religion and heterosexuality are historically interconnected in U.S. gender politics as arenas for masculine ideals.
		Heterosexual mothers may possibly get more help from the social and/ or biological fathers of their children, but this might be conditioned by which burdens and obligations their husbands or boyfriends find "manly" enough to assume considering the ways that the Fatherhood Responsibility Movement seeks to re-gender parenthood.
		Despite its focus on male heterosexuality, the Fatherhood Responsibility Movement denies the fact that gendered and sexual politics are mutually reinforcing and inseparable within fatherhood and marriage politics (Gavanas 2003).
	www.leeds.ac.uk /CAVA/papers/intseminar4gavanas.htm (4493 words)

	Brazilian Courses at Harvard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This course studies the role of religious belief and practice in the history of the Andes, Brazil, Mexico, and the Caribbean with a focus on the nexus between religion and social change.
		Topics include individual and community responses to the Catholic Church, campaigns against idolatry, the relationship of religious tradition to political culture, religion and revolution, the gendered practice of religion, and the introduction of Protestantism and Evangelism.
		Other topics include gender and genre; sexuality and the state; social engagement and artistic autonomy; nationality, nationalism, and internationalism; class conflict and the "global market"; kinship, ritual, and religion; lesbianism, heterosexuality, and bisexuality; authoritarianism and democracy.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~drclas/regions/brazil/courses00-01.html (1785 words)

	New York Blade Online
		First, heterosexual transmission of HIV is the primary means of transmission of HIV, but not the primary cause of the AIDS epidemic in so-called third world countries.
		Second, communities that do not recognize the existence of gay men as moral human beings actually increase their rates of heterosexual HIV infection and hinder efforts to curb the epidemic.
		My first and second conclusions are based upon an assumption that heterosexual transmission of HIV is augmented by several factors, including the necessity for homosexual men to mask their sexual orientation by having relationships with women.
	www.nyblade.com /2005/1-7/viewpoint/opinion/religion.cfm (762 words)

	heterosexuality questionaire
		As of yet I don't take part in any heterosexual parades, nor do I feel the need to establish an identity that is distinctly heterosexual.
		The other thing that goes on the side of heterosexuals is that heterosexuality is what kept the human race alive, and homosexuality could not do that.
		However, with risk that technology could one day be crippled by disease, war, or natural disaster, heterosexuality should continue to ensure the life and continuation of our human existence.
	www.prince.org /msg/105/74126 (3924 words)

	Sexuality and religious/social conditioning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vegetarians may find eating all (or most, some permit fish) kinds of meat to be disgusting or horrific, but the people we argue with most likely are mainstream Americans (possibly Fundimentalists, who share most of the same eating habits), eating cow, pig, and other animal meat.
		This is clearly a good tool to help the christian to look beyond their socialization (and hopefully be cured of their religion), as their faith and values are things that they frequently feel comes from within and straight from their god.
		Even in arguments with fundamentalists, who usually don't accept evolution, this kind of argument is useful to counteract their idea of what is natural.
	junior.apk.net /~qc/mind/religion/sexuality_argument.html (276 words)

	Millsaps College :: Department of Religious Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		LGBT persons report feeling judged, rejected, unwelcome, and afraid in their majority heterosexual religious communities which leads to confusion about why God would allow them to be gay (Schuck 70).
		They see heterosexuality as superior to homosexuality which they view as a choice of orientation which can be changed through psychological treatments (Worthington 745-6).
		One can reasonably deduce that religion is both the cause of conflict, the motivation to work toward integration, and part of the solution.
	www.millsaps.edu /religion/rives2006.shtml (4417 words)

	Rethinking Homosexuality
		Don Browning is professor of religion and psychological studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
		With the elimination of heterosexual outlets, same-sex expression was bound to develop.
		Science contributes to the development of the modern homosexual identity by inviting people to think in deterministic ways about their feelings: if people sense within themselves homosexual feelings, they are more likely to interpret these feelings as inevitable and as determined by some necessary biological or psychological force.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=246 (2162 words)

	Homosexuality and Christian Faith: A Theological Reflection
		With respect to the understanding of homosexuality, therefore, neither homosexual condition nor homosexual inclination nor specifically homosexual acts may be interpreted as excluding one from the domain of God’s gracious intention.
		For these responses may help to illuminate also the situation of heterosexuals for whom neither marriage nor celibacy, as traditional categories of sexual vocation, function to clarify their situation of concrete obedience to Christ.
		Moreover, the illumination of the peculiar forms of temptation is the necessary corollary for the illumination of the peculiar forms of vocation pertinent to a homosexual life style.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1140 (3962 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COMMENTARY . The Anglican Communion's Argument Over Homosexuality . October 17, 2003 \| ...
		We must not be afraid to say that sometimes the patterns of African male heterosexuality are deeply complicit in structures of patriarchal and indeed capitalist oppression.
		Nor can it be right to compete with Islam by echoing that religion's patriarchalism, legalism and scriptural literalism, all of which have been long ago challenged by Christianity.
		The debate within religion -- and this really means, for all pretense otherwise, the debate within Christianity -- is now the great debate.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week707/commentary.html (1942 words)

	Houstonvoice.com
		The drive for equality, the Vatican said, makes “homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality.” The concerns, raised in a 37-page document written by one of Pope John Paul II’s closest aides and released Saturday, broke no new ground, maintaining the Catholic Church’s ban on women priests, for example.
		Paul Lakeland, an expert on the Catholic Church, who is a professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, expressed concern that some of the document could be used by church conservatives to condemn any form of advocacy for women.
		The pamphlet by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican’s orthodoxy watchdog, was published during a campaign to protect “the Christian family.” Earlier salvos have blasted same-sex marriage, appealing to politicians, regardless of their religion, to block legal recognition for gay couples.
	www.houstonvoice.com /2004/8-6/news/religion/ribs.cfm (764 words)

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		The army of the discontented, eager for clear villains and simple solutions and ready for a crusade in which political self-interest and social anxiety can be cloaked in morality, has found hatred of homosexuality to be the last respectable prejudice of the century.
		He was against lust and sensuality in anyone, including heterosexuals.
		To say that homosexuality is bad because homosexuals are tempted to do morally doubtful things is to say that heterosexuality is bad because heterosexuals are likewise tempted.
	www.philosophy-religion.org /handouts/homophobic.htm (1047 words)

	Religion and Culture--Bjorn Krondorfer
		Men's studies in religion is a gender-conscious reading and interpretation of sacred texts and religious traditions.
		The Men's Studies in Religion Group is a forum where research and ideas are exchanged at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion.
		Often it is the location where conflicts between cultural and religions norms are sought to be resolved (for example, abortion or euthanasia).
	www.smcm.edu /users/bhkrondorfer/relg.htm (753 words)

	TechnoDyke.Com - Jesus Wept - A lesbian's look at what organized religion has done to christianity.
		We have all heard the saying, "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." As Jeffrey Siker wrote in July 1994 Theology Today, while heterosexuality is the dominant sexuality, it doesn't mean it is the only appropriate one.
		Obviously, humans needed to continue the human race, so a relationship that could fill this need would be preferred.
		Karma Chavez graduated from Hastings College in May 2000 with degrees in religion and communication, and is in her first year of graduate school in communication studies at the University of Alabama.
	www.technodyke.com /religion/jesuswept/3.asp?page=2 (280 words)

	PopMatters Film Feature \| Monsters in the Closet: Killer Kids and Queer Identity
		Evil children, then, come to represent a real threat to the heterosexual order, and in killing their families threaten the entire heterosexual fantasy of reproduction and family.
		Isaac and his band of fey killer children succeeded in destroying the heterosexual social project and erecting in its place an alien community that defied adulthood and with it the heterosexuality necessary to maintain the family.
		The defeat of evil is always the defeat of a radical social project or moral system, the evil always takes the form of a direct threat to heterosexual families and is always defeated by the concerted efforts of loving parents and children working together to build a future that looks exactly like the past.
	www.popmatters.com /film/features/050811-killerkidsqueeridentity.shtml (3333 words)

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