Moral and Ethical Issues
Moral and ethical issues greet us each morning in the newspaper, confront us in the fundamentals of our daily jobs, encounter us from our children's daily school activities, and bid us good night on the evening news. We are bombarded daily with discussions of drug abuse, the morality of medical technologies that can prolong our lives, the rights of the homeless and abortion, the fairness of our children's teachers to the diverse students in their classrooms, and sexual morality. Dealing with these moral and ethical issues is often perplexing especially when individuals are trying to think through an ethical issue and determine what questions to ask and what factors should be considered.
Personally I have encountered several events in my life involving many ethical and moral implications, but at this time I will focus on at least two, adultery and homosexuality. Having been married and divorced and going through the betrayal of my ex husband committing adultery, my feelings have always been the same concerning this issue. I feel that adultery is immoral. My religious upbringing has played an important part in my beliefs. Adultery involves relations in which one or both parties are married, but not to one another. According to the New Testament's representations of the teachings of Jesus, there are three forms of adultery. The first form is the act in which a married person commits adultery by physically engaging in sexual acts with someone who is not his or her spouse. The second form is the thought in which a married person commits adultery if there is a lustful desire for someone other than his or her spouse. The third form is divorce and remarriage. This describes a married person committing adultery if he or she divorces and remarries, unless the divorce is caused by a spouse's unfaithfulness. Many people do not take into consideration the affects of adultery. It is often the afterthought that makes a person realize the moral and ethical ramifications involving
Personally I have encountered several events in my life involving many ethical and moral implications, but at this time I will focus on at least two, adultery and homosexuality. Having been married and divorced and going through the betrayal of my ex husband committing adultery, my feelings have always been the same concerning this issue. I feel that adultery is immoral. My religious upbringing has played an important part in my beliefs. Adultery involves relations in which one or both parties are married, but not to one another. According to the New Testament's representations of the teachings of Jesus, there are three forms of adultery. The first form is the act in which a married person commits adultery by physically engaging in sexual acts with someone who is not his or her spouse. The second form is the thought in which a married person commits adultery if there is a lustful desire for someone other than his or her spouse. The third form is divorce and remarriage. This describes a married person committing adultery if he or she divorces and remarries, unless the divorce is caused by a spouse's unfaithfulness. Many people do not take into consideration the affects of adultery. It is often the afterthought that makes a person realize the moral and ethical ramifications involving
Bibliography: Coleman, James William & Cressey, Donald R. (1990) Social Problems. New York Harper &Row, Publishers, Inc. www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/thinking.html www.gospelway.com/morality www.bibletexts.com/terms/adultery