1. Homosexuality KEY QUESTION;
23 November 2018
KEY QUESTION;
Do homosexual couples deserve the same rights as a heterosexual couple?
Learning Objectives:
Grade A*: Evaluate Christian attitudes towards homosexuality
Grade A: Evaluate whether you agree with homosexuality.
Grade B: Explain the churches beliefs about homosexuality
Grade C: Describe your own opinion about homosexuality
Grade D: Describe the meaning of “homosexuality”
HOMEWORK:
Research “gay pride” marches, and explain why a homosexual might believe they should take part.

2. Starter: Is SEXUALITY nature or nurture?
Watch the following clips and explain your answers:
Explain whether you believe you choose your sexuality; are born with your sexuality or whether something happens in life to ‘turn’ you gay.
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3. What do we mean when we talk about
Homosexuality
What do we mean when we talk about
HOMOSEXUALITY?
Write your ideas here…

4. Times have changed
In the UK, the Sexual Offences Act (1967) decriminalised private sexual acts between men 21 years or over in England and Wales. The minimum age of consent at which a person may lawfully consent to buggery and to certain homosexual acts was then reduced to 16 in England and Wales by the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000.
Do you think that I should have equal rights? Write your answer on the sheet along with two reasons.
The UK government introduced the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007

5. What is the worst type of (non-violent) prejudice against gay people?
Debate on your table which of these situations is the worst and come up with a top three.
Choose a number one and write a sentence or short paragraph about why you think it’s the worst
Called awful names
Confused with paedophiles
Being arrested for being gay
People thinking you have AIDS
Being denied work?
Having to keep your sexuality secret
Not being accepted by family
Being told you are going to hell
Something else?

6. Views on homosexuality
Divide your page into three equal sections Use the information sheets to fill in the different viewpoints. Don’t forget to include quotes.
Catholic Views
Other Christian Views
Views on homosexuality
My Views
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7. How would you use these in an exam?
REVIEW AND REFLECT:
How would you use these in an exam? 1 2 3 4 5 6
Students need to explain how each picture relates to an idea or quote and how it could be used in the exam. 7 8 9

8. It is wrong for a man to lie with another man as he would a woman St Paul
Women should be quiet...

9. Homosexual ACTS are against natural law and should not be approved
Homosexual ACTS are against natural law and should not be approved. The Catechism of the Catholic Church

10. Those who commit unnatural acts such as homosexual acts should be put to death. Leviticus (OT)
Image of God

11. God created human beings male and female and told them to produce children
Do unto others..

12. If God created people the way they are, surely it’s natural for some people to be attracted to the same sex.
Love thy neighbour

13. Jesus never actually condemned homosexuality
Created from the ribs of Adam

14. Surely if two people are committed and love each other, that is most important.
We are one in Christ

15. The Catholic Church stresses that the homosexual individual is not evil, but the acts of homosexuality are.

16. AGAPE – Jesus said that you should love your neighbour as yourself
AGAPE – Jesus said that you should love your neighbour as yourself. So how should a homosexual person be treated?

17. Differences in attitudes Men vs women
Have you got anything that you want to talk about with the class? For example...
Adoption/step families
Different types of love
Differences in attitudes
Men vs women
What is ‘normal’?
Laws of attraction
Why we often have strong reactions to those that are different.
What makes a good husband/wife?
Be respectful and be careful... If your teacher has to stop a discussion they will explain why.