When I think of mainstream society regarding a particular community that may differ from mainstream society, the one group that comes to my mind is the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). Gould and Moe (2015) have researched quite exstensively the LGBTQ movement in Serbia. Through their research, it has been shown that the LGBTQ community seeks the same purpose as most other groups, acceptance and equal rights. Through their movement, a new religious sector known as the Unitarian Universalist Association was born. I wish to explore how the community came about and how the group’s choices and actions are consistent with ethical relativism.
The LGBTQ movement began to emerge in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe when same sex sexual behavior and cross-dressing was deemed morally unacceptable. In my mind, how could it be morally unacceptable when this is the time period of cross-dressing in William Shakespeare’s plays, as they would not allow women …show more content…
First, ethical relativism as defined by Williams and Arrigo (2008) is simply stating that morality is relative to a particular culture, time periods and varies from time to time. To further elaborate, one must be willing to consider that what may be true and just in one time period may not be considered the same in a different era. For example, think of slavery in the United States. During that time period, it was an agreed upon set of values that it was okay to enslave African-Americans and make them serve, White Americans. Once the guiding principles of slavery began to be questioned and how inhumanely injust it was at that time, it was only then that slavery was abolished. Ethical relativism is simply asking us, as human beings to strip away our own thoughts, attitudes and beliefs and view different subject matters in a different perspective than what we are used to
The LGBTQ movement began to emerge in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe when same sex sexual behavior and cross-dressing was deemed morally unacceptable. In my mind, how could it be morally unacceptable when this is the time period of cross-dressing in William Shakespeare’s plays, as they would not allow women …show more content…
First, ethical relativism as defined by Williams and Arrigo (2008) is simply stating that morality is relative to a particular culture, time periods and varies from time to time. To further elaborate, one must be willing to consider that what may be true and just in one time period may not be considered the same in a different era. For example, think of slavery in the United States. During that time period, it was an agreed upon set of values that it was okay to enslave African-Americans and make them serve, White Americans. Once the guiding principles of slavery began to be questioned and how inhumanely injust it was at that time, it was only then that slavery was abolished. Ethical relativism is simply asking us, as human beings to strip away our own thoughts, attitudes and beliefs and view different subject matters in a different perspective than what we are used to