I want to turn back the clock -- to a time when we valued love and marriage and didn't expect, support and even encourage promiscuity. Beyond legislation, the spending fight over Planned Parenthood is a call to arms for a new sexual revolution. It's about wanting more for ourselves and for those whom we love. It's about ending the surrender to a contraceptive mentality that treats human sexuality as just another commercial transaction.
Perhaps nothing better illustrates that than a recent commercial for a contraceptive called Beyaz. Women walk into a store and literally shop for men. "It's good to have choices." A woman happily shakes her head at the stork and its offerings in a sassy "we girls can do anything" kind of way, promenading through an adult Barbie commercial complete with Ken, a dream house and a trip to Paris.
That commercial does not, needless to say, do justice to the pain and desperation many women suffer when they find themselves thinking about an abortion, or popping pills in pursuit of something that masks itself as satisfaction but is really just a bad substitute, oftentimes making true happiness all the more illusory. JWR
Thank you Michele, nothing destroys family life more than a contraceptive mentality. I want to apologize because, as a Catholic, we ought to have been setting a good example and shouting this from the housetops. Five percent of Catholics have been doing just that, but it ought to be all of us. What we desperately need is an Adult Catholic Sunday School. We are all in this together, and we have to uphold the Natural Laws that our Creator put into place when He fashioned us with His Word and His Hands. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and God bless you.
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