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PHIL Final Exam ReviewExamTopics:Sexual Orientaion and Same-Sex Marriage      White, 79-81      Kennedy, 82-86      Kurtz, 102-105      Koppelman, 106-111      Gallagher, 112-1182. Abortion      Thomson, 297-306      Beckwith, 333-341      Warren, 307-317      Marquis, 318-326      Pruss, 342-349      Hobbes, 261-265      Locke, 266-272      Mill, 282-2853. War      Aquinas, 427-428      De Vitoria, 429-431      Grotius, 432-437      Clausewitz, 428-441      Ghandi, 442-445      Posner and Becker, 446-4484. Economic Equality      Aristotle, 451-454      Locke, 455-465      Rosseau, 466-477      Marx and Engles, 478-483      Rawls, 192-196      Nozick, 497-504      Hospers, 510-515      Murray, 520-528      Anderson, 529-539      Rector and Sheffield, 540-553Sexual Orientation and Same-Sex MarriageKennedy (pg 82), Majority Opinion in Lawrence vs Texas (2003)Case about 2 men (Lawrence and Garner) who were charged for performing sexual acts in the privacy of their homeThe courts must acknowledge that adults my choose to do these acts in the privacy of their home and still retain they dignity as free personsThe liberty by the Constitution allows homo-sexuals the right to make this choiceOver the course of the last decades, States with same-sex prohibitions have moved toward abolishing them“These matters, involving the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy, are central to the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment…”When homosexual conduct is made criminal, it become an invitation to subject homosexuals to discrimination“Bowers was not correct when it was decided (…) Bowers v. Hardwick should be, and is now overruled” The case involves 2 adults doing a homosexual act, they are entitled to respect for their private lives.Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct with out intervention of the governmentdecisions whether to marry or who to marry plays a large role in shaping ones own identityMajority and Dissenting Opinions in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003)The question is whether the Commonwealth may deny the protections and benefits from 2 same-sex people who wish to marry. It may notThe Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals“Our obligation is to define liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code” Lawrence v TexasSame-sex couples are deprived of membership in our community’s most rewarding and cherished institutions3 partners to every civil marriage: the 2 spouses and the stateWithout the right to choose to marry, one is excluded from a range of benefitsThe right to marry means little if it does not include the right to marry who you wishMarriage, sexual intimacy, and how to establish a family is a part of one’s liberty and due process rights“Absolute equality before the law is a fundamental principal of the ConstitutionFertility is not a condition of marriageIf procreation were a component to civil marriage, out statutes would be more strict about child-bearing outside of marriageStereotype that same-sex relationships are unstable, unworthy of respect, and inferior to opposite-sex relationshipsSome belive that children with opposite-sex parents are raised in a more “optimal” setting“For the best interests of the child” is not based on the parents sexual orientation or marital status Extending civil marriage to same-sex couples reinforces the importance of marriage to the communityProhibiting marriage by same-sex couples reflects the communitys cosensus that homosexuality is immoral The Libertarian Question (Kurtz, pg 102)If homosexual sex is private, why doesnt consentual adult incest fall under the same sort of protection?Our taboo on incest helps to offset the potential temptation to participate in acts of incestWe need this incest taboo because there is no effective way for the state to protect children from sexual abuse by family membersLike the incest taboo, the taboo on non-marital and non-reproductive sex helps to cement marital unionsThe tabooo on homosexuality protects marriageBy making homosexuality taboo, it reinforces the idea that the highest purpose of sex was to bind families closerWeakening taboos increases our personal freedomMarriage is protected by monogamy; the danger of gay marriage is that it will undermine the taboo on adulteryGay marriage threatens monogamy because homosexual couples tend to see monogamy as nonessentialOpenly non-monogamous married gay couples will break the connection between marriage and monogamyGay marriage would set in motion a series of threats to monogamyThe Decline and Fall of the Case Against Same-Sex MarriageWe have 2 debates about smae-sex marriageFirst debate is about what relationships to valueThe second is a debate about administartion—about which relationships ought to have legal consequencesThe conservative view may be linked to the view that homosexuality is wrongAmericans oppose same-sex marriage, two to oneGays dont want second-class status, and dont want their relationships to be seen as any diffrent than hetero relationshipsThe gay struggle for equality in many ways resembles the struggle against racism; “separate but equal” has an ugly historySame-sex marriage depends on the idea that “marriage is an essentially private, intimate, emotional relationship between two people for their own personal reasons to enhance their own personal well-beingThere is no reason to think that any heterosexual family will benefit from withholding marriage from seme-sex couplesWill Gay Marriage Weaken Marriage as a SocialI nstitution: A Reply to Koppelman (Gallagher, pg 112)