Sentence examples for contrary to nature from inspiring English sources

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The church says that if you are "gay," you are "disordered," which means that your sexual orientation is contrary to nature, opposed to natural law, perverted.

The astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco wrote, in his The Sphere of the World, "the eclipse was not natural, but, rather, miraculous and contrary to nature".

Another popular "natural" open and outdoor exhibit system commonly runs contrary to nature and the requirements of the inhabitants.

Two men being joined is contrary to nature and contrary to the Bible".

To strike a pupil would be contrary to nature and would not help him learn.

Some people, Aristotle says, think that the rule of master over slave is contrary to nature and therefore unjust.

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For the Catholic Church, "sodomy" was defined as any act deemed contrary to nature--so pretty much all the fun stuff like oral sex and masturbation, and some less fun stuff like bestiality and necrophilia were included.

"The form of opposition from fundamentalist humanists, and fundamentalist naturalists – that we should make no change to nature [or] to human beings – is directly contrary to the nature of human beings, because we are the species that goes beyond our limitations," counters Kurzweil.

These arguments make it plain that every body has its natural movement, which is not constrained or contrary to its nature.

(Until the 20th century, today's welfare state would have been considered contrary to human nature).

It seems contrary to human nature that this good luck and restraint can continue.

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