Investigations Flashcards
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Intoduction
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- ->What is homosexuality?
- ->What is Equality?
- ->What is equality for homosexuals?
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Conservative Christians
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- ->Condemn homosexuality
- ->Breaks the covenant relationship between God and his people
- -> Leviticus ‘if you lie with a man as with a women, you have committed and abomination and shall be put to death’
- -> New Testament - St Paul, all homosexuals acts and relationships are condemned
- -> Uses it to explain gentile depravity in Rome
- ->
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Liberal Christians
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- -> Gods love comes in many forms of homosexuality
- -> When the bible is interpreted in its historical social content, homosexual practices are condemned, but not relationships
- -> Quality of relationship determines the value, not who
- -> God crated everyone is his own image - Genesis
- -> God made each of us how we are for a reason, omni-benevenelont etc therefore he intended us to be that way
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Roman Catholics
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- -> Condemn homosexual acts, but not feelings.
- -> Cant control our feelings, however can control our actions
- -> Acts are sinful, as the bible condemns all of them
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Majority of Islam
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Condemn homosexuality –> believe it is a sin against Islam.
- -> Many of the Hadiths and Allah condemn it
- -> When a man mounts another man, the throne of Allah shakes
- -> Main aim of Islam is family –> homosexuals can’t procreate
- -> Muslims do not want to go against the word of Allah, therefore will discriminate against homosexuals
- -> Islam countries (Afghanistan and Saudi Rabia) homosexuality punished by death
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Minority of Islam
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- -> Al-fatia accept Islam.
- -> Islam religion of tolerance and forgiveness
- -> Not all heterosexual couples can pro-create
- -> God made us how we are, therefore if he made us homosexual, there is no reason we should interfere with him
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Situation Ethics
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- -> Teleological ethical theory- based on the most loving thing to do
- -> 1960’s people wanted to have more fun and go out.. Jeremy Bentham
- -> Most loving thing - accept homosexuality - does not harm anyone else
- -> Goes against natural order and conscience
- -> :( Edwin Williams. ‘Love is too ambiguous for solving problems’
- -> :) Jon Robinson, ‘only ethics for man come of age’
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Natural Moral Law
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- -> St Thomas Aquinas - basis of how we live our lives
- -> Inspired by Aristotle
- -> Five primary concepts of basic living. One of these being ‘conservation of species’
- -> Homosexuality goes against this as you can not procreate - generations can not regrow
- -> Not all heterosexual couples can procreate - just as immoral
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Utilitarianism
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- -> Greatest good for the greatest number
- -> Jeremy Bentham Industrial revolution - improve working conditions
- -> Hard to say whether to accept homosexuality. Hard to tell what is the minority and the majority.
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Case studies
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Conclusion
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