Letter To Louise

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The Bible knows only a love ethic, which is constantly being brought to bear on whatever sexual mores are dominant in any given country, or culture, or period.

It’s the fault of any of us who make jokes about gay people, who insult them with the use of demeaning names. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Heterosexual sex acts are also condemned by the Bible whenever they are lustful, but that doesn’t mean all heterosexual sex acts are condemned. I would have liked more about her life and work after Louise was born, especially meeting and marrying John Alderton, and fame with Upstairs Downstairs and Shirley Valentine. And without marriage, we remain second-class citizens – excluded, for no good reason, from participating in one of the basic institutions of society.Postcards from the Past – for those who like to receive friendly postcards that often trigger memories and smiles. Yet she often appears insensitive to the serious problems she says Lara once faced, including suicidal depression.

I regret it now, but I’m sure I have said it a thousand times–you’ve heard me–“Jesus commanded us to do” so and so. She waited for the baby to be born in a home for unmarried mothers, buoyed by the kindness and humor of the other residents and the nuns who cared for them.Same-sex marriage would not force anyone to honor or approve of gay or lesbian relationships against their will.

An example of this evil is in pointing to Leviticus 18 or Romans 1 and declaring, “The Bible says homosexuals are going to hell. Every fifteen minutes in America a heterosexual rapes a woman; homosexuals don’t rape women or kidnap young girls or give birth to babies infected with AIDS. When advertising executive Schroff answered a child’s request for spare change by inviting him for lunch, she did not expect the encounter to grow into a friendship that would endure into his adulthood.Once sex is no longer confined to procreative genital acts and masculinity and femininity are exposed as social ideologies, then it is no longer possible to argue that sex/love between two persons of the same sex cannot be a valid embrace of bodily selves expressing love. Thielicke remarked that the homosexual “is frequently gifted with a remarkable heightened sense of empathy. Letter to Louise is the story of her discovery of that pregnancy, and her difficult decisions in how to proceed.