In this season of joy and hope, we should all focus on those things everyone agrees on, like: The are too damn many liberals.
Conservatives want them to change their minds, liberals want to kill themselves off but in the end we all agree on the problem.
#6 Random Blowhard is pretty funny; “duhhhh wait, we all decided to kill off OUR kids decades ago and no one has stopped us; why are there still prolifers?” Yeah, dunno why lol.
I don’t think we should try to pass any completely unenforceable laws but when you folks finish killing yourselves off, there won’t be anyone to stop us from passing whatever laws we like, and there are some pretty good reasons to discourage contraceptive use.
Because of course, every kind of contraceptive has a failure rate, so as contraceptive use has gone up, so has the out-of-wedlock birth rate, and the abortion rate with its many ensuing physical and mental health problems has also risen. Children born not into a stable, male-female marriage have quite a few more problems than those who are. To me, the most fascinating part of “Humanae Vitae” is section 17; in the first paragraph, Paul VI predicted modern western society and in the second, he predicted modern China. He certainly was prescient about the lack of respect for women, the degradation of the culture, the decline of marriage here, and the terrible policies in place in China.
Before you mindlessly attack anyone who is prolife and leery of contraception on demand, you might want to look at the real downsides of the past 45 years or so. There’s a lot more to it than “God says so and He’ll cast upon you the twin plagues of hemorrhoids and mice if you don’t do what I say He wants” (a little “1 Samuel 6″ humor there; I couldn’t resist). A mature Christian realizes that what God suggests is rather sensible most of the time, and civilizations go a lot more smoothly when most people in it attempt to follow Judeo-Christian moral laws.
