Before I begin, I hope the above was a typing error… I certainly do not wish people “would shoot each other”
Anyway I don’t believe it is like saying this. Firstly, sexual activity is rightly or wrongly a norm in modern day culture; as much as I would desire to see more young people waiting till marriage before being ‘sexually active’, I recognise that it is seen as almost abnormal not to. But you have made my statement much more sensationalist by comparing to something which is still socially condemned on the whole. As far as moral, religious, and social beliefs go, sexual practice is up for debate. Different groups of people believe different things. Many religions endorse abstinance, some desire arranged marriage, and others believe that the body is something to be enjoyed and used as an expression of love. Here in the UK sexual practice or abstinance from is a right for every adult. [Morality is a personal issue that arises from such freedom] However the law and society on the whole (speaking from my own British context) does not consider guncrime to be an appropriate way to express anything. It is NOT accepted and it is ILLEGAL and this makes a great differnece as to what action you take. But hey, if someone can fund bullet-proof vests for the entire UK population, I’d gladly take one.
Absolutely was a typing error. It should have read “wouldnt”.
OK, here goes. The question was not what is a “norm” in society, it was about what is objectively moral. Saying that we should provide contraception is the same as saying we should provide bulletproof vests: both are “protection” against immoral acts. For one you are protecting against the consequences of your own immoral behavior, for the other you are defending against the immoral behavior of someone else. Either way, both protect against immorality. The legality of a thing does not matter. There is an ocean of difference between freedom and license. We have the freedom to do anything under the sun, but we do not have the license. To advocate for such things as free contraception, condom handouts in schools, free ABC Pills, etc, is to advocate for a type of licentiousness which leads to the death of the soul.
The argument of whether to contracept within marriage is a completely different issue, albeit still a morality issue.
The reason that so many people look to ABC as the cause for increased abortion, promiscuity, social evils and various other things is because the “sexual revolution” began with ABC (I know I know, not a primary cause, but that is the impression). That was not the root cause, IMHO, but it was a major contributing factor. Bishop Fulton Sheen said that one of the causes for todays social degradation was the increasingly mechanical view of individuals. We have become individuals, parts in a machine, instead of people, human beings belonging to God. When you view PEOPLE as merely parts in a machine (society, employees, neighborhoods, anything) you devalue them to the point where they are worth less than any of your own desires.
The reason so many people have sex outside of wedlock today, again IMHO, is a selfish desire to fulfill their own wants in an incredibly hedonistic culture. The point is not to increase your loved one in Holiness, Joy, and Love any longer, but to “get off”. Sex was created to be a unifying act requiring three people: The husband, wife, and God. Instead of that many people (especially men) make sex about one person, themselves. This is why they require contraception: They do no love their partner, they have put God out of the equation, and because of these two they need to “Protect” themselves…
Anyway, I gotta get to work.
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