Unit 1- Lesson 8: Same sex relationships

Question 1

What is homosexuality?

Answer 1

the quality or characteristic of being sexually or romantically attracted to people of one’s own sex/gender.

Question 2

Quaker Christians accept same sex relationships- Do they accept homosexuality? State a quote that proves this.

Answer 2

Yes as Jesus never forbid it. Furthermore, they will preform same sex relationships and will bless them.
- ‘You are all one in Christ’ Galatians 3:28
. shows Quaker Christians are accepting and diverse.

Question 3

Catholic Christian views on same sex relationships- Why do Catholics forbid same sex relationships? State a quote to prove this.

Answer 3

They believe it’s a sin as the bible forbids it and it also breaks St Thomas Aquinas’s Natural law (To reproduce). Catholics advise homosexuals to celibate (To not marry or preform sex)
- ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a women. That is detestable.’ Leviticus 18:22

Question 4

Muslim views on same sex relationships- Why is homosexuality a sin? State a quote to prove this.

Answer 4

The Quran forbids it
- ‘You approach me with desire, instead of women. You are a transgressing people’ Quran 7:81

Question 5

Muslim views on same sex relationships- Are homosexuals banned from the Mosque?

Answer 5

Islam is clear that homosexuals should not be discriminated and should be allowed to go mosque to pray.