Should same sex

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Should same sex marriages be allowed in places
of worship?
Starter Match the following key words with their
definitions
Marriage Fairness, freedom from oppression.
Homosexuality That which everyone is entitled to, just because they are human.
Discrimination Having a sexual preference for someone of the same gender.
Equality a legally recognised union between two people of the same sex.
Prejudice a close and intimate union
Human Rights Where everyone is treated fairly, free from discrimination.
Justice Judging someone before you get to know them, making assumptions.
Civil Partnership Acting on prejudice- e.g. treating someone differently because of what they look like or their sexuality.
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• Lesson Objectives
• Know the current legal status of marriage and
  civil partnerships
• Understand a range of different religious
  responses to civil partnerships
• Evaluate whether same sex marriages should be
  allowed in a place of worship.

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Warm up questions

1. Stand up/Change places if you think marriage is
   outdated
2. Stand up/Change places if you think marriage
   should be for ANY 2 people who love each other
3. Stand up/Change places if you think marriage is
   only right for a man a woman
4. Stand up/Change places if you think
   priests/vicars should be able to say no
5. Stand up/Change places if you think
   priests/vicars should have to say OK
6. Change places if you think whats all the fuss
   about?
7. Change places if you think a same sex marriage is
   a sin or wrong
8. Change places if you think they are OK as long as
   the ceremony is a secular one
9. Change places if you think this is a human rights
   issue

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• The Government allows couples to register their
  civil partnerships but stops short of counting
  them as married, even though the civil ceremony
  gives them almost exactly the same rights in law
  over property, pension and inheritance.
• Complete this task using the key words
• Unequal Civil Partnership Married
  Injustice Discrimination.
• Civil Partnerships are________ to marriage. Same
  sex couples can
• only have a _________ they can not get
  ___________.
• Heterosexual couples can only get________, they
  can not have a
• __________. Some people see this as a form of
  _________ and
• ___________.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Article 7.
• All are equal before the law and are entitled
  without any discrimination to equal protection of
  the law. All are entitled to equal protection
  against any discrimination in violation of this
  Declaration and against any incitement to such
  discrimination.
• Article 16.
• (1) Men and women of full age, without any
  limitation due to race, nationality or religion,
  have the right to marry and to found a family.
  They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage,
  during marriage and at its dissolution.
• (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the
  free and full consent of the intending spouses.

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Do you agree?
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• Civil partnerships
• (marriages)
• are legal so
• why do some religious
• believers support religious
• marriages while others
• condemn this?

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Same sex marriages should be allowed in a place
of worship Which points do you agree with?

• Everyone is made in the image of God so there
  should be no problem
• People are equal so there should be no problem
• Same sex relationships are bad and blessing them
  through religion is wrong
• Religious marriage ceremonies are for religious
  believers whatever their sexual orientation
• Religions should stick to their teachings
  heterosexual or celibate, nothing else
• Same sex relationships are OK but I draw the line
  at religious marriage ceremonies
• Religious teachings say that we should love our
  neighbour and Gods love for us is agape
  (unconditional) so we should try to do the same.
• Same sex relationships are not natural
• Not allowing same sex marriages is discrimination
  and against the Universal Declaration of Human
  Rights.

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• Same- sex
• Weddings.
• .in a religious
• building?

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Rights? Beliefs? Teachings? Choice?
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• Lesson Objectives
• Know the current legal status of marriage and
  civil partnerships
• Understand a range of different religious
  responses to civil partnerships
• Evaluate whether same sex marriages should be
  allowed in a place of worship.

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The end