FSTDT Roundup

[desertvixen]

 The Pill is Baaaaaad

Well over 53% (a 1972 statistic) of couples who contracept end up in divorce, while 3% of couples who use Natural Family Planning end up in divorce. They never mention this in high schools.

Little girls do not grow up dreaming of hopping from bed to bed and contraception. They dream of a man who will sweep them off their feet and love them forever, and of having his many children. A cynicism born of the sexual revolution has brought emptiness to the hearts, wombs and lives of far too many modern women. This emptiness and pain can be avoided or redeemed and healed by the love of Christ and adherence to His teachings. The Catholic Church believes in such dreams because God wrote them on the human heart. And there are men who long for such a woman to love and cherish.
Real lovers want to give without reserve in God's own superabundance creating more hearts and lives to love. Contraception is like kissing through a screen door and real love cannot tolerate obstacles. Contraception breeds selfishness and separation that drives a wedge between husband and wife that kills love. Real lovers want their love to explode into the posterity of future generations for all eternity. This is the kind of passion and fulfillment God wants for His children. Contraception limits what should be boundless. It spits in the face of this glorious passion and love's true abandon; and that is why it is a sin. It seeks to "tame" love, thus killing it. The Catholic Church is the last bastion on earth of true romance. The modern world has suffocated love and made sex a thing of deadness.

The bolded portion makes this one for me.  Of course (some) little girls dream about having lots of children.  They haven't been through labor or pregnancy, or held down a job while caring for a child.  They haven't spent sleepless nights with crying children.  They haven't been exposed to the whole cost thing.  And rightfully so.  They're little girls.

Yes, I am a Catholic.  Yes, I have used birth control.  No, I didn't stop because the Church said so.  I stopped because I didn't like how they made me feel.

Pining For The Good Olde Days?

For me, the 1620s and 30s were a golden age in American history. Religious pilgrims had arrived  from Europe to start a new life and establish a  holy society in a strange, new world.

We had strong families and communities: Atheists, Satanists and other social miscreants were burnt at the stake or dunked under water.

Women and children knew their place and did as they were told by their betters and elders.

We had a simple but spiritually fulfilling and decent existence.

Compare that to today with our society in sharp moral decline. Children abuse their parents and play obscence video games like "Grand Theft Auto" and dream about living out all that mindless violence in reality. Abortion and homosexuality is rife. Divorce is rampant. Communities are breaking down.

Need I go on?

Isn't it time we realized that we were much happier  when we had less but were closer to God?

Anyone else wish we had a time machine so we could give these people what they wanted?  We could put them in the time machine and SEND THEM BACK.  You think a certain time period was so great?  Go there and stay.

Generally, said time period was only great if you were a White Anglo-Saxon Male with Power.

Slept Through History Class

they might but really the whole allowing women to vote was a huge mistake in this way.it caused families to be separated.if a man was going to vote he voted for his whole family not just himself so he consulted his family about who to vote for and when women were given the right to vote this stopped.

 Somehow I doubt there was a lot of "consulting" going on.  OMG, you mean women might make different decisions?  OH NOES!

DV
 

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

If they think "Grand Theft Auto" is obscene, they haven't gotten out much. Parts of Postal are much, much worse. And I'd say that the "left behind" video game is worse than either of those two, but it was such crap they can't even give it away.

Ah yes. THe old chestnut about how people who contracept aren't really giving to each other, like they'd actually *know* what people who use contraception are thinking.

[oilhistorian.livejournal.com]

There was actually a lot of speculation at the time that women would vote differently than men on issues. Indeed, that was one of the major reasons for the 19th Amendment: the belief that omen were somehow more moral than men and would vote to clean up politics. As the elections of the Roaring Twenties demonstrated, though, social, class, economic, and ethnic distinctions proved far stronger than gender in determining voter preference. It's not really until the Sixties that women start voting in patterns different from men of the same background.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I loved the whole "women are morally superior, but if they leave the domestic circle they will be blemished" idea.

So do you think the change since the Sixties is due to reproductive rights issues, or to more pointed political marketing towards women?

DV

[oilhistorian.livejournal.com]

Reproductive rights were certainly a factor, but the big impetus for the shift in politics came from Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique. Before then, reproductive rights were subsumed under other issues (politics made for odd bedfellows back then as both Progressivism and the eugenics movement embraced legalized contraception). For the first time since the 19th Amendment was ratified, issues of gender replaced issues of class and economic status in women's political identity -- due in large part to Friedan (and others who didn't get published) wanting to be more than just a wife and mother.