SECTION 2 CHRISTIANITY- TOPIC 1.2.8 GENDER PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Question 1

1 Evangelical Protestants beliefs about discrimination and prejudice

Answer 1

teach that men and women have separate and different roles and so cannot have equal rights in religion.

-w cant speak or teach in church
-must submit to their husbands
-Men must love their wives as themselves

They do not see this as discrimination because it is what God ordained in the New Testament, which they believe is the final Word of God.

Question 2

2 The Catholic Church beliefs about discrimination and prejudice

Answer 2

-against gender prejudice and discrimination

-teach that m and w should have equal roles in life and equal rights in society

-teaching of the Catholic Catechism that men and women are equal and catholics have to follow catechism

-women are able to study and teach and be extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion

-also teaches that only men can be ordained
priests -claim not prejudice because they solely need the male piest to represent jesus

Question 3

3 Liberal Protestants beliefs about discrimination and prejudice

Answer 3

believe not only that men and women should
have equal roles in the family but also that
they should have totally equal rights in life and in the Church.

-have women ministers, priests and bishops

-the letters of Paul teach that in Christ there is neither male nor female and therefore men and women should have equal rights

-some evidence that there were women priests in the early Church.

Question 4

SOWAA about equality

Answer 4

“for you are all one in Christ Jesus”

Question 5

Christian opposition to gender prejudice and
discrimination

Movement for the Ordination of Women

Answer 5

-MOW is an organisation of Christians who believe that the Church’s refusal to have women priests is gender discrimination.

-group campaigned for the ordination of women

-campaign for gender equality

Question 6

Atheist and Humanist attitudes to gender
prejudice and discrimination

Answer 6

-believe that men and women are equal
and should have equal rights.
-Humanists are against sexism
-believe that it is wrong for religion
to be able to discriminate against women

Question 7

Some key statistics !

Answer 7

3 million women and girls across the UK experience rape, domestic violence, stalking or other violence each year (2009 academic research)

Almost one in three girls have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school (YouGov survey 2010)

2 % of young people say that men and women are totally equal today