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    Challenges→All uses of one's capacity for intentional sexual satisfaction must be reserved to marriage, and within marriage to truly marital intercourse.

    A normative claim that is valid only within a particular theological metaphysics cannot serve as a binding rational constraint in pluralist moral philosophy without independent secular justification.

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    Key Terms

    Binding rational constraint(ethics and epistemology)
    A rule or principle that everyone should logically have to follow, regardless of their personal beliefs.
    Independent secular justification(ethics and philosophy of religion)
    A reason or argument for why something is right that doesn't rely on religious beliefs and can stand on its own logical ground.
    Normative claim(ethics and moral philosophy)
    A statement about what *should* be done or what is right/wrong, as opposed to just describing what *is* the case.
    Pluralist moral philosophy(moral philosophy)
    An approach to ethics that accepts multiple different value systems and worldviews as potentially legitimate, rather than insisting everyone follow one set of rules.
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    A system of beliefs and assumptions about reality that is built on religious foundations—like God's nature, the soul, or divine purpose.
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    A model-theoretic notion indicating that a conclusion is true in every model in which the premises are true

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