Refusing to side with the Marians despite his daughter's marriage to Young Marius, he was pursued by them and killed in the temple of the Vestals and his body thrown into the Tiber.

Craving or attachment to desires, however, is not regarded here as the sole cause of suffering, but as only one among other causes which also lead to sufferings such as " Arrogance, Negligence, Refusing to believe, Hatred, Holding Grudges ".

Refusing is therefore " tantamount to suicide ", but suicide is, itself, a crime.

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Refusing or neglecting to answer the census is punishable by fines of $ 100, for a property or business agent to fail to provide correct names for the census is punishable by fines of $ 500, and for a business agent to provide false answers for the census is punishable by fines of $ 10, 000, pursuant to-224.

" Refusing to submit the draft is considered a criminal offence in most countries where conscription is in effect.

Refusing to wear a seatbelt like the rest of the crew, Bender is catapulted out of the front of the ship upon crash-landing and smashed to pieces.

Refusing to perform an action that is unethical or illegal is not insubordination ; neither is refusing to perform an action that is not within the scope of authority of the person issuing the order.

" " Refusing to assign a ' secret ,' ultimate meaning " to text " liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity, an activity that is truly revolutionary since to refuse meaning is, in the end, to refuse God and his hypostases — reason, science, law.

Refusing to bunk with the common girls in the group dormitory ( the Pink Dormitory ), Galinda is forced to room with seventeen year old Elphaba, with whom she initially does not get along very well.

Refusing Marge's insistence that he not fight the bear, he sneaks out of the house, is joined by Bart, Lenny and Carl, and goes to fight the bear.

Refusing to dole out false compliments, he is charged and humiliated, and resolves on self-imposed exile.

Refusing to sell is grounds for having one's competition licence revoked.

Refusing to settle for covering their electric songs, the band brings new tales that are accompanied not only by the guitars and percussion Floater is known for, but also strings, piano, and other facets that are in keeping with this band's unique style.

Refusing to offer a defense for his actions, zur Linde is convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Refusing to surrender, DeVries is shot several times, smashes through the blockade and crashes.

Refusing to confirm or deny, Loughnane accused “ this character ” of being “ insanely jealous of Clare ’ s success ” during his tenure, adding: “ I would regard ( him ) as the man, hurling-wise, who was the greatest failure ever in the history of Clare hurling .” Bohan was manager of the Clare team in the late 70s when it was widely perceived that that Clare team, which included Ger Loughnane, left at least one All-Ireland after them.

Refusing to participate in rituals of loyalty to the Emperor ( see Imperial cult ), he is subjected to corporal punishment that escalates to torture — which miraculously may not affect him — but he does not deny his faith and is martyred.

Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).

They tend to interpret biblical verses on homosexual acts to mean that the heterosexual family was created by God and that same-sex relationships contradict God ’ s design for marriage and violate his will.

Some Christians believe that marriage is the union of two people and that homosexual behavior is not inherently sinful.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

The statement makes it clear that homosexual activity is still prohibited, saying inter alia that " Halakhah sees heterosexual marriage as the ideal model and sole legitimate outlet for human sexual expression "; " Halakhic Judaism views all male and female same-sex sexual interactions as prohibited "; and " halakhic values proscribe individuals and communities from encouraging practices that grant religious legitimacy to gay marriage and couplehood ".

It lifted most restrictions on homosexual conduct and opened the way to the ordination of openly gay and lesbian rabbis and acceptance of homosexual unions, but stopped short of religiously recognizing gay marriage.

All sexual activity ( heterosexual and homosexual ) outside of marriage is considered a serious sin.

The marriage is symbolic, because Elagabalus appears to be homosexual or bisexual.

" However, some opponents of same-sex marriage view the matter differently ; Randy Thomasson, Executive Director of the Campaign for California Families, calls civil unions “ homosexual marriage by another name ” and contends that civil unions provide same-sex couples “ all the rights of marriage available under state law .” The California Supreme Court, in the In Re Marriage Cases decision, noted nine differences in state law.

" Ours was a love story in spite of the marriage ," Caven explained in an interview, adding about her former husband's sexuality: " Rainer was a homosexual who also needed a woman.

A 1972 off-Broadway play, Nightride, depicted, in the author's words, " a black – white homosexual marriage ".

This provision, specifically article 17 ( 1 ), protects private adult consensual sexual activity, thereby nullifying prohibitions on homosexual behaviour, however, the wording of this covenant's marriage right ( Article 23 ) excludes the extrapolation of a same-sex marriage right from this provision.

On December 6, 2006, the law committee accepted a paper by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and Avram Reisner on same-sex marriage and ordination of homosexual rabbis, while it upheld the biblical prohibition on male intercourse.

The Bayreuth Festival was seen as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagner to his son Siegfried Wagner, but Siegfried, who was secretly homosexual, showed little interest in marriage.

It was hoped that the marriage would end Siegfried's homosexual encounters and the associated costly scandals, and provide an heir to carry on the family business.

Williams, who was homosexual, did however propose a marriage of convenience to her, which she abruptly declined.

Before his marriage he is alleged to have invited the homosexual literary muse, Denham Fouts, on a cruise of the Aegean Sea, perhaps because they were lovers.

Price was homosexual and the marriage was an attempt to lead a " conventional " life, since homosexuality was a criminal offence in the United Kingdom until 1967.

The older, Urania, is the daughter of Uranus, and inspires homosexual male ( and more specifically, ephebic ) love / eros ; the younger is named Pandemos, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and all love for women comes from her.

Will Brooker argues in Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon, that a queer reading of Batman is a valid interpretation, and that homosexual readers would naturally find themselves drawn to the lifestyle depicted within, whether the character of Bruce Wayne himself is explicitly homosexual or not.

Many Pentecostal churches such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, also take the position that homosexual sexual activity is immoral.

Most of the Anglican Communion does not approve of homosexual activity, with the exception of the Episcopal Church, which is facing a possible exclusion from international Anglican bodies over the issue.

In addition, some Christian denominations such as the Moravian Church, believe that the Holy Bible speaks negatively of homosexual acts, although it is still working on establishing policy for the issue of ordination and homosexuality as research on the matter continues.

Christians who oppose homosexual relationships sometimes contend that same-gender sexual activity is unnatural.

Consistent with this hypothesis, studies that report the highest rates of PCP in Africa are those that use the most advanced diagnostic methods " Duesberg also claims that Kaposi's Sarcoma is " exclusively diagnosed in male homosexual risk groups using nitrite inhalants and other psychoactive drugs as aphrodisiacs ", but the cancer is fairly common among heterosexuals in some parts of Africa, and is found in heterosexuals in the United States as well.

While it has been widely believed that Edward was a homosexual because of his closeness to Gaveston, there is no concrete evidence of this.

It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a bisexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the heterosexual – homosexual continuum ( asexuality also sometimes being included as the fourth ).

In these studies heterosexuality in females is linked to a lower amount of masculinization than is found in lesbian females, though when dealing with male heterosexuality there are results supporting both higher and lower degrees of masculinization than homosexual males.

From this point of view, the variation of phenotypic expression between heterosexual and homosexual desire in individuals has emerged in humans, as is the case for many species, as an apparent better adaptation as there are no documented human populations that are uniformly heterosexual.

Yuri is very similar to yaoi, except that the focus is on female homosexual interactions.

In the Islamic regimes of Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, North Sudan and Yemen, homosexual activity is punished with the death penalty.

In some relatively secular Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey this is not the case ; and there are no specific civil laws against homosexual practice.