Homosexuality and Religious Approaches
- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 09-04-13 21:43
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- Homosexuality
- Issue which has divided Christianity.. Conservatives will usually not agree whilst Liberals recognise their rights
- Protestants = homosexual acts are wrong but people are still 'individuals of sacred worth'
- Roman catholics = there is no sin in having homosexual inclinations but it is sinful to act upon them - procreation not possible
- Liberals = not seen as a major issue
- Literal interpretations of the Bible assert that homosexuality is wrong and unnatural but they also assert that adulterous people should be stoned to death!?
- The New testament speaks of the importance of the quality of the relationship which matters
- Issues
- Homosexuality not being natural
- Homosexual sex not leading to procreation
- Question of the 'gay gene'
- Actual/ metaphorical bible interpretation
- Until the late 1960s, homosexuality was a criminal offence which could be punishable with a prison sentence! (no one was sentenced after 1959)
- Until 1992, the United Nations Health Organisation still classed homosexuality as a mental/ psychiatric disorder
- "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman: this is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22)
- Issue which has divided Christianity.. Conservatives will usually not agree whilst Liberals recognise their rights
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