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Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships

Author : Karen R. Keen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467451339
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships written by Karen R. Keen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, balanced, biblically grounded discussion you’re likely to encounter anywhere. With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Keen breaks through current stalemates in the debate surrounding faith and sexual identity. The fresh, evenhanded reevaluation of Scripture, Christian tradition, theology, and science in Keen’s Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships will appeal to both traditionalist and progressive church leaders and parishioners, students of ethics and biblical studies, and gay and lesbian people who often feel painfully torn between faith and sexuality.

Gay Ethics

Author : Timothy F Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136587535
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Gay Ethics written by Timothy F Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia in health care. It focuses on these issues within the social context of the lives of gay men and lesbians and makes evident the ways in which ethics can and should be reclaimed to pursue the moral good for gay men and lesbians. Gay Ethics is a timely book that illustrates the inadequacies of various moral arguments used in regard to homosexuality. This book reaches a new awareness for the standing and treatment of gay men and lesbians in society by moving beyond conventional philosophical analyses that focus exclusively on the morality of specific kinds of sexual acts, the nature of perversion, or the cogency of scientific accounts of the origins of homoeroticism. It raises pertinent questions about the meaning of sexuality for private and public life, civics, and science. Some of the issues covered: Sexual Morality Outing Same-Sex Marriage Military Service Anti-Discrimination Laws Affirmative Action Policy The Scientific Study of Sexual Orientation Bias in Psychoanalysis Homophobia in Health Care Gay Ethics presents a wide range of perspectives but remains united in the common purpose of illuminating moral arguments and social policies as they involve homosexuality. The chapters challenge social oppression in the military, civil rights, and the social conventions observed among gay men and lesbians themselves. This book is applicable to a broad range of academics working in gay and lesbian studies and because of its current content, is of interest to an educated lay public. It will be a standard reference point for future discussion of the matters it addresses.

Gay Science

Author : Timothy F. Murphy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500319
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Gay Science written by Timothy F. Murphy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic marker were discovered for homosexual tendencies would genetic screening be used to further discriminate against gay people? If a method for changing sexual orientation were developed would it would be forced upon gay adults, or children whose parents suspected they might grow up to be gay? Given the potential for its misuse, is sexual orientation research fundamentally unethical? Murphy acknowledges that much of sexual orientation research to date has been bad science, questionable in its motives and methodologically unsound. He examines the social and historical conditions, from the 1880s to the present, that spawned this research and reviews the findings that have often perpetuated confusion about homosexuality. He assesses five major studies on sexual orientation undertaken in the 1990s, from neuroanatomist Simon leVay's study of certain brain structures in gay men to the work of psychologist Joseph Nicolosi. He questions the flawed and simplistic assumptions about sexuality made by much of this research, Murphy argues that a true science of sexual orientation would not be focused exclusively upon homosexuality nor presuppose its pathology. Throughout the book Murphy argues that concerns about the potential misuses of this research do not justify its prohibition. Tackling gay science's most troubling aspects, he contends that if this research leads to the development of effective sexual orientation therapies, informed adults should have the choice to undergo them; he also examines the factors that weigh in favor of a parental right to choose or attempt to influence the sexual orientation of a child, and the ethical limits to such a right. Pointing to the potential benefits of sexual orientation research as well as acknowledging its potential for harm, Murphy ultimately defends gay science in the name of free scientific inquiry. Gay Science argues that the way to ensure the future of gay people is not through censoring sexual orientation research but through working toward a society which uses reseach as a way of dinstinguishing myth from fact and not as an instrument of discrimination.

Gay and Lesbian Rights

Author : Richard Peddicord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781556127595
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Rights written by Richard Peddicord and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is unique in setting the question of homosexuality in its historical, legal, political, and religious contexts in North America. It is no longer possible in Catholic ethics to address sexual morality with a model of absolute moral norms, immune from the ambiguities and complexities social justice issues introduce. Peddicord looks at the personal and social sides of homosexuality, and fairly examines all sides of the Roman Catholic response.' --Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

Biblical Ethics & Homosexuality

Author : Robert Lawson Brawley
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256388
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Ethics & Homosexuality written by Robert Lawson Brawley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the most important biblical texts for modern Christians to read in order to arrive at responsible decisions regarding the ethics of human sexual behavior? How should the Bible be used in this enterprise? How should those texts be translated for today's reader? The contributors to this book, all noted biblical scholars, confront these questions as they deal with issues surrounding the ethics of sexual behavior, in general, and the divisive issue of gay/lesbian ordination, in particular. They provide for the reader a deeper understanding of the Bible, its intentions, and its variety. This book offers a challenge to the church to give heed to the multiplicity of voices that are engaged in biblically responsible and constructive debates about the volatile issues regarding sexual behavior.

Gays/justice

Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231067355
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Gays/justice written by Richard D. Mohr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- The Advocate

The Ethics of Waste

Author : Gay Hawkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742530133
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Waste written by Gay Hawkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.

Gay and Gaia

Author : Daniel Teberg Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Gaia written by Daniel Teberg Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay and Gaia is Daniel Spencer's bold, passionate call to rethink sexuality, ecology, and the sacred. Contending that ecological ethics must become the grounding for all ethics, the author asserts that genuine justice requires right relation among all of creation, not simply among human beings. Spencer urges us - gay and straight, bisexual transgendered - to reject a human-centered, anthropocentric worldview in favor of an ecocentric worldview. Yet our responses to the ecological crises need to be rooted in, and nourished by, our appreciation of the erotic. Only when we are able to integrate our sexuality with our spirituality will we fully experience the divine - and fully live out our ethical values.

Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children

Author : Timothy F. Murphy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018055
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children written by Timothy F. Murphy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical review of the debate over the still-hypothetical possibility of prenatal intervention by parents to select the sexual orientation of their children. Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery.

Same Sex

Author : John Corvino
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847684830
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex written by John Corvino and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Same Sex' presents a comprehensive anthology on homosexuality, exploring historical conceptions of homosexuality, homosexual identity, and a variety of public policy issues.

The Morality of Gay Rights

Author : Carlos Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135317437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Morality of Gay Rights written by Carlos Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical frameworks fit the specific gay rights controversies, such as same-sex marriage and parenting by lesbians and gay men, that are part of our nation's political and legal debates.

What's Wrong with Homosexuality?

Author : John Corvino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019985632X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with Homosexuality? written by John Corvino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last twenty years, John Corvino--widely known as the author of the weekly column "The Gay Moralist"--has traversed the country responding to moral and religious arguments against same-sex relationships. In this timely book, he shares that experience--addressing the standard objections to homosexuality and offering insight into the culture wars more generally. Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor. In the process, he makes a fresh case for moral engagement, forcefully rejecting the idea that morality is a "private matter." This book appears at a time when same-sex marriage is being hotly debated across the U.S. Many people object to such marriage on the grounds that same-sex relationships are immoral, or at least, that they do not deserve the same social recognition as heterosexual relationships. Unfortunately, the traditional rhetoric of gay-rights advocates--which emphasizes privacy and tolerance--fails to meet this objection. Legally speaking, when it comes to marriage, "tolerance" might be enough, Corvino concedes, but socially speaking, marriage requires more. Marriage is more than just a relationship between two individuals, recognized by the state. It is also a relationship between those individuals and a larger community. The fight for same-sex marriage, ultimately, is a fight for full inclusion in the moral fabric. What is needed is a positive case for moral approval--which is what Corvino unabashedly offers here. Corvino blends a philosopher's precision with a light touch that is full of humanity and wit. This volume captures the voice of one of the most rational participants in a national debate noted for generating more heat than light.

Is Gay Good?

Author : W. Dwight Oberholtzer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Is Gay Good? written by W. Dwight Oberholtzer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is an outspoken collection of informed opinions and facts that open up one of America's major undiscussed problems for frank debate. What percentage of the male population has had an overt homosexual experience at some time? Is society's rejection, and the homosexual's resultant self-hatred, the cause of promiscuous, impersonal, and irresponsible behavior associated with homosexuality? What popular ideas about homosexuality are disproved by careful research and reporting? Are psychotherapists guilty of arrogant subjectivism in attempting to 'cure' the homosexual? How does a straight, happily married man with two children 'turn into' a homosexual? What do homosexuals do? Why do all these questions need to be asked? because homosexual behavior touches the lives of at least fifteen million Americans, their friends and families. Unsettling--candid--passionate--personal--this is a crossfire of varied views from homosexuals and heterosexuals, men and women, Americans and non-Americans, theologians, and nontheologians, Catholics and Protestants on the present realities of homosexuality."--

The Ethics of Marginality

Author : John Champagne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816625338
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Marginality written by John Champagne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique, which moves gay studies beyond identity politics and the "rights" discourse within which much of contemporary gay studies is positioned. Champagne argues that in the modern West, culturally marginalized people such as gays are not allowed to define and legitimate their own existence outside the framework established for them by the dominant group. To illustrate his premise, Champagne analyzes a number of recent films, including "Paris is Burning", "Looking for Langston" and Marlon Riggs' 1989 video "Tongues Untied" along with gay pornography, using the work of such critics of difference as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak. He calls for the marginalized individual to elaborate a practice of critical self-conduct, working to understand his or her own group as having been produced as an entity along a variety of different registers, only some of which might be said to be marginalized. "The Ethics of Marginality" situates itself at the intersection of English, cultural studies, film studies and gay and lesbian studies. It offers a powerful critique of contemporary approaches to studies of the "other" while promising to establish a ground-breaking and controversial new theoretical model for such studies.

The Moral Defense of Homosexuality

Author : Chris Meyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442249323
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Defense of Homosexuality written by Chris Meyers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Meyers takes the reader on a careful, rational, sustained criticism of arguments about the immorality of homosexuality. Meyers refutes anti-gay arguments by showing that they are based on unreasonable or demonstrably false ideas about the nature of morality. Working through the morality arguments against homosexuality, Meyers shows how the nature of morality demands impartial, overriding reasons to act. He argues that morality is not grounded in visceral feelings of disgust, commands from the scriptures, or mysterious Platonic essences. In clear, convincing discussion, Meyers examines morality to promote the moral logic of granting rights to all people, no matter their sexual orientation.

Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity

Author : Josina M. Makau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065712
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity written by Josina M. Makau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading communication scholars integrate cutting-edge research with real-world dilemmas as they address ethical problems associated with technological and cultural changes and demographic shifts. In eleven chapters, the fourteen contributors to Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity consider the implications of these changes to communication contexts ranging from personal friendships to communication over the internet and from classroom dialogues to mass-mediated communication to community building in an age of diversity. They address specific issues associated with race, gender, ethnicity, and affectional orientation, offering specific proposals for change. Although the primary audience is scholars and teachers in communication programs, the book will be of particular interest to readers in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, especially individuals in centers and departments of ethnic studies, women's studies, and African American studies. CONTRIBUTORS: Julia T. Wood, Ronald C. Arnett, Josina M. Makau, Dolores V. Tanno, Barbara Paige-Pointer, Gale Auletta Young, Lea P. Stewart, James W. Chesebro, Richard L. Johannesen, Clifford G. Christians, James A. Jaksa, Michael S. Pritchard, Jana Kramer, Cheris Kramarae

Gay and Lesbian Politics

Author : Mark Blasius
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566391733
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Politics written by Mark Blasius and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An active participant in and theorist of the gay and lesbian movement, Mark Blasius contends that being gay or lesbian is by definition political. By extension, the phenomenon of a movement founded on collective identity is a quintessential part of American politics. The continually rising public consciousness of the needs and interest of gays and lesbians provides Blasius with a vehicle for showing how a particular aspect of human life comes to assume political dimensions. Upon this premise, he analyzes the process of how power is exercised through sexuality and traces the historical conditions that have made possible a gay and lesbian politics Drawing on works of political philosophy, social science, including Foucault, and gay and lesbian studies, Blasius explores the invention of a gay and lesbian ethos, through which participation, even for apolitical gays and lesbians, goes beyond a shared culture and perspective. It is a way of life more encompassing than either sexual orientation or lifestyle alone. Though he acknowledges and reflects upon the divergent range of gay and lesbian experiences, Blasius provides a framework based on theories of power, sexuality, and ethics that elaborates the significance of the movement as a whole within contemporary society. Author note: Mark Blasius, Associate Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, LaGuardia, is the co-author of We Are Everywhere: An Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics.