5.1 Human Sexuality

• Christianity and Islam see heterosexual relationships as God's plan.
• Some Christians and Muslims see homosexual relationships as going against God's plan
• Het relationships: Christianity:

  Marriage only place for Het relationships

  -> God's plan

  Views on premarital sex vary

  All against unfaithfullness
• "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." - Genesis
• Het Relationships: Islam

  • Normal pattern of behaviour
  • -> Muslims are expected to start families
  • Sex only in marriage
  • -> considered a gift from God
• "Marry those who are singly among you for [God] will develop their moral traits [through marriage]." - Hadith