RELG 271 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ethics, Christianity, Homosexuality

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jonathan Waind

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*- chastity (sexual holiness) is the most unpopular of the christian virtues. There is no getting away from it: the christian rule is, either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence. " . Pierre trudeau: there"s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation what"s done in private between adults doesn"t concern the criminal code . Trudeau to reporters on the decriminalization of homosexuals acts (1967) Pope leo xii: the idea, then, that civil government should, at its own discretion, penetrate and pervade the family and the household is a great and pernicious mistake (authority and governance) Aristotelian family theory: the rst form of association naturally instituted for the satisfaction of daily recurrent needs is thus the family . Zoon politikon: human beings are political animals not only with the relationship with the state but with the basic foundational unit, the family.