Sexual Ethics Flashcards
Bible on Homosexuality
“Do not lie with man as one lies with woman, that is detestable”
“Homosexuals are sexually immoral”
Bible on marriage
“It is better to marry than to burn with passion”
1 cor 7
Bible on sex
“Shun Fornication” 1 cor 6
Traditional opinions on homosexuality
Philo on sex
Women “instruments of evil”
Tempt men via sexuality into sex for pleasure or sex outside marriage
Augustine on sex
Intention of sex = reproduction
Modern views on homosexuality
Mikhail Tumasov
“I see no correlation between sin and being LGBT”
Church of England
Accepted contraception in 1968
Encouraging pre marital sex??
Kant on Extra/ Pre martial sex
If adultery was universally applied marriage would not mean anything
Duty to partner
Anthony Harvey
We should remove the absolute nature of the bible and look at Jesus’ teachings on love and compassion
John Stuart Mill
Liberty principle
A variety of lifestyles enrich society
Moral offence is not sufficient reason to prevent homosexuality
NML
- Any act not for reproduction is wrong - preservation of life
- education of children, effective in nuclear family setup
+ Homosexuals who adopt? Fulfils other primary precepts
Kant on Homosexuality
- homosexuals= “slave to their passions”
- homosexuals ignore duty to reproduce
- surrogacy and adoption not universalisabile
- most people are straight, can’t universalise homosexuality
Lord Wolfender
Tolerance and Harm
Homosexuality doesn’t cause actual pain, law has no right to limit it
Utilitarianism
+ Homosexuality make people happier with themselves
+ Bentham= causes no harm to society
+ Mill= “We should not attempt to deprive others of liberty”
+ Mill= as long as higher pleasure of love is upheld, lower pleasure of sex acceptable
Phillips Taylor development of Utilitarianism
- 6 times more likely to break up if u cohabit before marriage - pain
- higher rate of STDs and abortions
