na INLIS000000000004532 20221027054641 0010-0520004532 221027 | | eng 9780521868631 eng 340.112 340.112 BAM p Bamforth, Nicholas Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender : a Critique of New Natural Law / Nicholas Bamforth and David A.J. Richards New York : Routledge, 2008 xii, 403p.; 24cm ; 24cm Indeks : p.393-403 p.371-391 Bamforth 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. Natural Law Natural Law - Religious Aspects - Catholic Church David A.J. Richards 09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09319/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09320/MKRI-P/XI-2008