This is an academic paper. Therefore internet sources are largely useless to me. I appreciate the help, I really do, but most internet sources are dubious at best form an academic standpoint.
I would think the proper response to someone who posts a response to your request for help-- and even goes out of their way to post links to some of the things they have read in the past-- would be “thank you.” Instead you’ve basically snubbed your nose at several people’s responses and offers of assistance.
Just because something is *available *on the internet, that does not mean it is an “internet source” of an unreliable nature. The OMSoul PDF I linked you to has footnoted references documented on page 2. This is a document that they sell on their website, they only happen to also have it as a PDF you can view. OMSoul also sells Dr. Smith’s tapes and books. I do not consider it dubious in the least. The Divorce Graph supports Pope Paul VI’s assertions in Humanae Vitae with empirical data.
The other link is to an article for Touchstone Magazine, a published article by an author who has written six books, is a PhD, and a Fellow at the Family Research Council. While not a Catholic source, the article truly focuses on the marriage and family aspect/consequences of contraception and could easily be linked to Pope Paul VI’s predictions regarding contraception. Not exactly a “dubious source” either.
You stated this was your angle, “That is an interesting tack, but I think I am going with the approach that ABC violates every aspect of the spousal union, acts as an aid to adultery and fornication, and resultes in attitude shifts about the end purpose of the union.” So, I was sincerely attempting to point you to articles that had this particular angle to them, the attitude shift and resulting consequences to marriage and family.
You then stated, " I would agree with your insistence on empirical data makes a lot of sense if it were a sociology paper. I am defending the Church position." So, I took that to mean you were not being held to a standard of needing only certain types of articles or authors.
If you only wanted scholarly, peer reviewed articles or authors who are moral theologians, you should have stated your parameters up front, i.e. “only reference academic journals and church documents, please.” But, you stated you were looking for church documents, magazine articles responding to Humanae Vitae, etc. Soooo, silly me, I tried to help you with some articles I thought might help you as you develop your ideas on your topic.
Certainly you are free to take our suggestions or leave them, but you could be gracious and just say “thank you” not tell us all about why our sources are no good to you.
Since you find the internet so dubious I’m surprised you posted on an internet forum asking for help.
