RELIGION, SEX, AND PUBLIC ETHICAL DISCOURSE

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RELIGION, SEX, AND PUBLIC ETHICAL DISCOURSE

• THE CARE, FEEDING, AND NURTURE OF PUBLIC CIVIL
  MORALITY DISCUSSION

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RELFECTIONS

• Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in
  human life, has indisputably been a subject of
  absorbing interest to mankind through the ages
  it is one of the vital problems of human interest
  and public concern.
• Religion divides people from each other. .
• GOD BRINGS US TOGETHER

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DEFINITIONS

• RELIGION, RELIGIOUS, RELIGIOSITY
• SEX, SEXUAL, SEXUALITY
• MORALITY, MORAL, MORALISTIC, MORALS
• GENDER

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SOURCES OF MORALITY

• THEOLOGY/RELIGION
• PHILOSOPHY
• SOCIO-ECONOMICS
• FORMULAE FOR HUMAN SELF-WORTH/SELF-ESTEEM

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BACKGROUND THEIRSTORY

• HEBRAIC-JUDAIC ANTECEDENTS
• THE EDICT
• TRANSNATIONAL MORALITY RELIGION
• EASTERN SCHISM
• REFORMATION MORE FRAGMENTATION
• ENLIGHTENMENT
• SECULARIZATION OF WESTERN LIFE
• PURITANIZING OF CIVIL/CIVIC LAW/MORALITY

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PURPOSES EFFECTS I

• SOCIAL PURPOSES
• POPULATION GROWTH
• MORE CONSTITUTENTS?
• MORE SOULS TO SAVE?
• US v. THEM?
• SELF-WORTH/ESTEEM OF PRACTICTIONERS?
• SELF-WORTH/ESTEEM OF THE AUDIENCE?
• EXERCISE OF SECULAR POWER
• TRUTH BELIEF
• FACT PROOF
• FAITH

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PURPOSES EFFECTS II

• PROTECTION OF WOMENS PREROGATIVES AND AUTONOMY
• INDIVIDUAL AS MORAL AGENT
• MAINTENANCE OF THE SEPARATION OF THE SECULAR AND
  THE RELIGIOUS
• LIMITS ON SOCIETYS ROLE IN THE
  PRIVATE/INTIMATE SPHERE
• PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY/DECISION-MAKING

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TERMS OF DEBATE DISCOURSE

• CLAIMS OF AUTHORITY
• SECULAR EFFECTS INTENDED EFFECTS AND THE LAW
  OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
• ABSOLUTIST RHETORIC VS. ACTUALITIES
• TOLERATION

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CURIOUS PERMUTATIONS COMBINATIONS

• SMITHIAN SOCIO-ECONOMICS WITH CHRISTIAN SEXUAL
  MORES
• BUT, IF SMITH IS GOOD FOR PRO-DUCTION AND
  DISTRIBUTION, WHY NOT FOR REPRO-DUCTION??
• CONSIDER THE 1ST 4 BOOKS OF THE
  HEBRAIC-JUDAIC-CHRISTIAN BIBLE FIRST AMENDMENT
  ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE DISCLAIMER - PUBLIC HEALTH,
  SAFETY, WELFARE, MORALS CODE

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ROLE OF RELIGION IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE
DISCOURSE I MORE THEIRSTORY

• PROBLEMS OF SPIRITUAL/PERSONAL MEANING SEEMING
  EMPTINESS OF THE MATERIAL A SENSE OF NEEDING
  MORE
• THE GREAT AWAKENINGS

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ROLE OF RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE DISCOURSE II
COMFORT ZONE OF THE FAMILIAR AND DOCTRINAL
PRINT CONTROL

• PRE-REFORMATION CHURCH MONOPOLY ON THE PRINTED
  WORD- - KNOWLEDGE.
• REFORMATIONGUTENBERG REVOLUTION INDIVIDUAL
  INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE
• DOES DIGITALIZATIONCLOSED CODINGNEW TECHNOLOGY
  FOR ENFORCING INFO./KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES?
• WHAT OF BROADCAST TECHNOLOGIES?
• MEDIA EMPIRES? FEWER AND FEWER OUTLETS OF
  KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION?

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THE FUTURE I?

• MERGER OF ABSOLUTIST RHETORIC PERSUASIVE
  APPEALS WITH QUANTUM ELECTORAL REPRESENTATIVE
  dEMOCRATIC EVENTS IN A DIVERSE WORLD
• ABSOLUTIST APPEALS, NOT ABSOLUTIST APPLICATIONS

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THE FUTURE II?

• THE NATURAL UN-NATURAL CONVENTIONAL
• TREATMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES CLONING, et al.
  SEE SPEAKING OF FAITH PROGRAM, 6 MARCH

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THE FUTURE III?

• DOES RELIGIONMORALS?
• SEX PRO-CREATION/ REPRODUCTION?
• --- MATING?
• --- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION?
• --- SOCIAL ROLE?
• --- ????? FUN?