6.4 - Clashes between religion, tradition and secular law
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- 6.4 - Clashes between religion, tradition and secular law
- Christian teachings and attitudes about marriage
- Christians: marriage = special relationship between man and woman that is created by God. Promises made before God, be faithful and permanent
- Civil marriage
- legal contract between 2 people that sets out rights rights and duties between them. must be secular
- RCC = accept but don't recognise
- Same sex marriage
- legally recognised through a civil ceromony
- CofE = oppose, only between man and woman
- Anglicans = recognise validity
- RCC = wholly opposed, does not recognise
- Divorce
- marriage can be legally dissolved, free to remarry after
- CofE = recognise may be inevitable
- RCC = don't recognise, don't allow remarriage
- Responses to forced, arranged and child marriages
- C churches teach consent is important
- Oppose forced marriage
- Arranged marriage not compatible with the church teaching
- Ideas about marriage have changed through history
- C churches / UK law = 16 with consent, 18 without consent
- RCC allows bishops to set ages in their own country
- RCC church law: males = 16, females = 14
- C churches teach consent is important
- Christian attitudes to equality and potential clashes with equality laws
- All people are equal because:
- God created the human race
- God plays a part in the creation of each individual
- God loves each person and accepts who they are
- God created human beings in his image
- Examples from history of Christians who have fought to establish equality: Martin Luther King and Trevor Huddleston
- Some people in the Bible were unequal: Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians
- C of E: allows women to be ordained as priests and bishops
- RCC: against God's will for women to have leadership roles within the Church
- Equality Act of 2010: equal treatment of men and women in access to employment, excluding religious jobs
- Marriage Act of 2013: marriage of same sex couples is lawful in civil ceremonies. No religious organisation can be made to allow ssm on their premises.
- All people are equal because:
- Potential clashes between Christian teachings and scientific development in medical ethics
- Euthanasia
- Euthanasia: The deliberate act of ending someone's life to relieve them from suffering
- Assisted suicide: When a terminally ill patient asks someone to help them take their own life; this is a form of active euthanasia
- Legal Aspects:
- Assisted suicide is illegal [Suicide Act of 1961] but public opinion is in favour of euthanasia
- 09/2015: Vote among MPs for legalised assisted suicide defeated
- 09/2014: 70% of Anglican Clergy say law on assisted suicide shouldn't be changed
- Religious Against:
- Life is precious as created by God
- Is deliberate killing, is murder
- Have a duty of care to those who are suffering
- Non Religious Against:
- Doctor's duty = preserve life, not end it
- Pain control is very effective, cures are more likely
- Some [particularly elderly] may agree so as not to be a burden on relatives
- For:
- Not murder, as murder is done out of anger and hatred. Done out of love and compassion
- Possible to put controls in place to ensure patient really does want to end life
- The right to die
- Should have absolute control over your life
- Able to decide to end it if they wish
- C's believe that a person's life isn't their own, is created by God
- No one has right to end their life, or someone end it for them
- Have right to refuse medial treatment. C's agree, provided they have the mental capacity to make that decision
- If patient's death is God's will, then it would be wrong to interfere
- Euthanasia
- Issues of genetic manipulation
- Christian teachings and attitudes about marriage
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