Sentence examples for sinful practices from inspiring English sources

Messiah College requires all students to sign a "Community Covenant" promising to, among other things, "avoid such sinful practices as…homosexual behavior…." This policy, which I see as exclusionary and bigoted, could not run more counter to my personal beliefs.

In the case of AIDS, the nature and intensity of the stigma is shaped by the social construction of the epidemic as God's vengeance against sinful practices which varies across cultures and national borders.

Beginning around A.D. 500, Mr. Jha writes, killing cows became increasingly taboo -- according to the religious texts, a sinful practice associated with the lowest social order, the untouchables.

SikAIDS is described variously by Christians as a punishment from God, divine retribution, or a call to relinquish sinful sexual practices [ 13].

"The Gambia is a country of believers... sinful and immoral practices [such] as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally.

Even as some religions make masturbation sound seriously sinful, virtually everyone practicing your religion is masturbating in private.

In his sermons he condemned a number of practices as sinful, including gambling, consuming alcohol, wearing lipstick, and playing baseball.

Believers have the right to abstain from practices they consider sinful, but not a right of veto over others.

THROUGHOUT Europe, Roman Catholic prelates and politicians are giving up the fight to keep illegal most of the practices that they consider sinful.

As a theologian and scholar, Dr. King would recognize a practice that was condemned as sinful in both the Old and New Testaments.

Alcohol is judged sinful so we created a "sin tax".