Getting Outside my Moral Matrix_MARIACHRISTIANSEN

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Getting Outside my Moral Matrix Maria J Christiansen Department of Home and Family, Brigham Young University Idaho FAML 460: Child and Family Advocacy David Petermann 05/06/2023

2 Getting Outside my Moral Matrix When we talk about individuals who consider themselves to be of a liberal, conservative, libertarian, moderate or other ideology, we only think about the position they occupy or will occupy in society, but not about the characteristics and thoughts of those who identify themselves as such. This document will provide the reader with an idea of the individual and his perspectives, in terms of his ideology and what led them to take those positions. Paul Christiansen (my husband) is a 31-year-old Christian, raised in a small town in the state of Wyoming, where the entire population consisted of 250 people and 98% of them were LDS. Paul is a defender at all costs of good customs, the constitution, and the restored gospel. I remember having a conversation with him about sex education, abortion, politics and other topics of interest and social controversy in which he called himself a conservative. He accepted my invitation to a personal interview. However, it has been a bit difficult to decide to interview him due to the controversy of our conversations that usually end in personal resentments, since despite me and he are faithful members of our Church we have absolutely different points of view with strong valid arguments for each one of us based on our beliefs, personal experiences and foundations infused in our upbringing and society in which we grew up. Fortunately, I see this interview as an opportunity to understand his point of view and why he finds himself in a position that often seems extreme to my feeling since I describe myself as a 60% liberal and 40% conservative personality. In our interview our moral trigger was the “Sexual Education for children in the school;” especially from 4th grade onwards. Moral Triggers

3 Paul was born and raised in a family with a simple lifestyle and conservative ideology inherited for generations. Most of the conversations that brought out his conservative side were associated with gospel issues and the libertarian policies that the Government was adopting little by little to give more freedom and autonomy to the inhabitants of the US. For him and his family it was not important to include government policies or changes in education in the family discussion topics since in the town where they lived everyone had a life associated with LDS standards. It was not until after he returned from his mission when he went to the University and moved to another city that he began to assimilate the changes in the laws that according to his belief "affected the integrity of children", these changes included the implementation of more sexual education specified in elementary school. This was undoubtedly threatening their beliefs, customs, lifestyle standards and family future as concerns arose about what their children could learn when they will be in school age. Having grown up in a family where divine laws and religious principles emanating from the Bible were strictly saw, for the teaching of any subject. Paul remembers having a conversation with his father about sexuality, but he does not remember what they talked about; however he has the memory of his very present emotions, fear, discomfort, and shame; "I had this feeling of not wanting to be there," Paul said. He surprisingly claimed that he already knew quite a bit about these subjects since "the guys in the lab" used the computers to watch pornographic videos. At first, he had no idea what that meant; however his curiosity grew and his desire to explore did too. The feelings expressed at the time of the interview were sadness, remorse, shame and guilt, since he had had a difficult start to sexuality; the same one that tormented him for years. In my opinion, this could have occurred due to not receiving sexual education at home and at school on time and in a more spontaneous way. This made him go

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