01808     2200313   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001200123084001800135100002300153245012500176260003300301300002900334500002300363504001400386520085000400650001601250650005401266700002401320990002501344990002501369990002501394990002501419990002501444990002501469INLIS00000000000453220221027054641  a0010-0520004532221027                |          | eng    a9780521868631  aeng  a340.112  a340.112 BAM p0 aBamforth, Nicholas1 aPatriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender : a Critique of New Natural Law /cNicholas Bamforth and David A.J. Richards  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2008  axii, 403p.; 24cm ;c24cm  aIndeks : p.393-403  ap.371-391  aBamforth and Richards argue that the new natural lawyers' views - which were advanced before the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas are neither of a secular character nor properly consistent with the philosophical aims of historical Thomism. Instead, their positions concerning lesbian and gay sexuality, contraception and abortion serve as a defense of the conservative doctrinal stance of the Papacy - a stance now properly rejected by many thoughtful Chatolics. The book suggests that the new natural lawyers' arguments are rooted in an embattled defense of the highly patriarchal structure of Catholic religious authority, and as such are unappealing in a modern constitutional democracy. Alternative interpretations of Christianity, not flawed in the way that new natural law is, are both possible and more constitutionally acceptable. 4aNatural Law 4aNatural Law - Religious Aspects - Catholic Church0 aDavid A.J. Richards  a09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008