9. Sexual Ethics: Desmond Tutu and other members of the Church's views on homosexuality
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- 9. Sexual Ethics: Desmond Tutu and other members of the Church's views on homosexuality
- Desmond Tutu
- Agape - Xian love
- Christian compassion
- Imago Dei
- All God's creation/reveal God/God's Children
- Equality
- Dignity
- Blasphemy
- "spitting in the face of God"
- Why does Archbishop Tutu find it so wrong that same sex relationships are not viewed in the same way as heterosexual ones?
- It's not a choice
- If you could choose, why would you choose to be in a minority
- It's God-given nature
- Counters Natural Law view of homosexuality
- It's an expression of sexuality in a loving way
- Suggests sex can be a divine gift
- Could be an expression of love of God
- Links to Situation Ethics and Fletcher
- It's not a choice
- Agape - Xian love
- Leviticus (18+19)
- "You shall not lie with a man as you do a woman"
- Old Testament
- Context
- Different sources
- Jews
- 3rd book
- Nomads wandering - final Israel - 40 years, promised land
- 613 laws
- Enable them to stay alive, stable/peaceful, protection, worship God
- Xians are cherry picking to maintain Church establishment
- Interpret verse literally
- Laws made sense at time for building another generation of Jews but does not make any sense in modern world
- 613 laws
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- "To know"
- Coitus
- Traditionally sin
- Homosexuality
- Vengeance
- Inhospitably (Lot was alien - receiving hospitality from a stranger in the city)
- "To know"
- David and Jonathan
- David was King of Israel, greatest of Kings of Israel
- Suggestion he was romantically in love with Jonathan but David still had favour of God - therefore suggests homosexuality is not wrong within Christianity
- Supposition - makes validity of argument questionable
- Jesus
- No direct teaching
- No opinion?
- Was alive during time of Roman Empire
- Roman sex life (boy slaves, prostitution, same sex)
- Attends a wedding between man and woman
- Could suggest Jesus's teachings were marriage was only for heterosexual couples
- Reiterates teachings of Genesis
- Man shall leave his father and mother
- No direct teaching
- Desmond Tutu
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