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      <title>Homosexuality, Polyamory and Ethics by Nick Purches-Knab</title>
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      <description>With Reference to Situation Ethics</description>
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      <pubDate>2017-07-18 10:57:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Polyamory?</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178949319</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>What do you understand by the term polyamory?</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:03:34 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Homosexuality in the UK</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178949473</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Make notes on how attitudes to homosexuality have changed in the UK.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:07:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A Traditional Religious View</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>We have studied Thomas Aquinas' "Natural Law" ethical theory - this is the Natural Law view on homosexuality and polyamory.</div><div><strong>BOTH HOMOSEXUALITY AND POLYAMORY ARE SINFUL AND IRRATIONAL</strong></div><div>God has a perfect plan for the universe and has made us and all of the creation to fulfil His design. We must act in accordance with this plan. We can see that to fulfil our God given purpose of reproducing and populating the Earth we should form heterosexual relationships and raise children. Thus same-sex relationships are simultaneously sinful and irrational.&nbsp;</div><div><strong>MONOGAMY AND REPRODUCTIVE SEX ARE BOTH IMPORTANT 'GOODS' IN GOD'S DESIGN FOR HUMAN LIFE</strong></div><div>Aquinas wants us to use our reason to see what kind of lives are good for humans. He thinks that good lives contain friendship, a place in a good society and are illuminated by the right use of reason. Marriage is another core human good, and in fact Aquinas referred to it as the ‘greatest friendship.’ Marriage, for Aquinas, combines <strong>monogamy,</strong> love, and mutual regard, and it is in turn oriented towards the goods of <strong>procreation</strong> and the raising of children. Sex- within the confines of heterosexual marriage and which is supportive of the goods of marriage- is permissible and can even be described as a moral good.&nbsp;</div><div>Aquinas adds, however, another requirement for sexual acts to be moral: they must be <strong>potentially procreative</strong><em>. </em>Hence, only heterosexual relations involving vaginal intercourse are acceptable; non-‘generative’ sex acts are immoral and irrational.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:10:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alex Crain: What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178949837</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div> <em>In God's good design, sex is reserved for a man and a woman who have entered into a legally binding marriage covenant. This kind of life-long commitment forms the basis for a garden-like relationship in which true intimacy can grow into a loving family. Multiply that same model many times over and a healthy society blossoms and thrives.</em></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:15:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>But then attitudes to families began to change...</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178950390</link>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:28:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alan Turing</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178950473</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Read this article about the terrible treatment endured by Alan Turing because he was gay. (Just click to open the page.)</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:30:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>You can watch The Imitation Game, a movie about Alan Turing&#39;s life on estream.</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178950713</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://media.truro-penwith.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=23945~5k~cBWuC9GVUq">https://media.truro-penwith.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=23945~5k~cBWuC9GVUq</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:36:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Joseph Fletcher&#39;s View</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178950767</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>HOWEVER, In 1960 Joseph Fletcher published an article called: <a href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2832&amp;context=lcp"><strong>SEX OFFENSES: AN ETHICAL VIEW</strong></a></div><div>He said that:</div><div><strong>THE LAW SHOULD NOT PUNISH 'SIN'</strong></div><div>It is not the function of the State and the law to constitute themselves guardians of private morality</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:37:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Kinsey</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178951240</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>And anyway the state really cannot police the private sexual activities of consenting adults. You can find out here about the work of Alfred Kinsey. After carrying out many surveys of American sexual behaviour he said that if the sexual morality laws were actually enforced 95% of American men would be subject to prosecution. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:47:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>And the Law Makes No Sense</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178951428</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Adultery is illegal in 21 states of the US. In the UK  is not an offence to sell sexual services but pandering and pimping are offences. Although the age of consent is 16 it is an offence to pay someone below the age of 18 for sex.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 11:52:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>THESE DAYS WE GENERALLY THINK WE SHOULD LET CONSENTING ADULTS DO AS THEY WISH</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178951937</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>"Society should not legislate or invoke social sanctions against sex acts performed by individuals who are reasonably competent and well-educated adults; who use no force or duress in the course of their sexual relations; who do not, without the consent of their partners, specifically injure these partners; and who participate in their sex activities privately, out of sight and sound of unwilling observers. If this and only this kind of limitation were applied in modern communities,<strong> only a few distinct sex acts would be considered illegal and illegitimate. Included would be seduction of a minor by an adult; rape, sexual assault and murder; and exhibitionism or forms of public display".</strong></div><div>-Albert Ellis -psychiatrist</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:02:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Wolfenden Report</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178952017</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Find out all about this important document here...Just click below.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:04:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Sexual Offences Act 1967</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178952161</link>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:06:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alan Turing is pardoned</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178952237</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Sam Gyimah, the justice minister, said: “This is a truly momentous day. We can never undo the hurt caused, but we have apologised and taken action to right these wrongs.”</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:08:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>BUT</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178952315</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>That doesn't mean that "anything goes!" Fletcher takes the view that our actions must be loving.&nbsp; It is not loving to encourage others to destroy themselves or to undervalue themselves.&nbsp; Sylvanus Duvall said: "the greatest danger in our day is a kind of antinomian selfishness about sex. "&nbsp; </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:09:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Find out more about LGBT history with these interesting podcasts</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/178952391</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>And I have added Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality to Moodle.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-07-18 12:11:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A website that might be of use.</title>
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         <pubDate>2019-02-08 12:30:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Here are some Fletcher quotations- useful for your essay.</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/329159843</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>You will need to cut them MUCH shorter though!</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2019-02-08 12:36:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>It&#39;s LGBT history month!</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/329160383</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Yeah- almost like I planned it!  Find out more about LGBT history here.  </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2019-02-08 12:39:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Why not download this and print it out for your bedroom wall?</title>
         <author>purchesknab</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/purchesknab/Fletcher_sexuality/wish/329161164</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>If you are LGBT or indeed Q it can inspire you in the face of homophobia and if you are straight it will make people think you are more interesting than you are! Such fun.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2019-02-08 12:42:19 UTC</pubDate>
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