Religious freedom and the equality of women

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There is an untruth circulating rather widely in the public square these days — and gaining speed. We need to derail it. The falsehood that is spreading is that somehow, because the church refuses to conform to the default position of practically everyone in contemporary society — that sexual promiscuity is the only authentic sign-post of human freedom — that she, the church, is waging a war on women.
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thecatholicspirit.com/columns/faith-in-the-public-arena/religious-freedom-and-the-equality-of-women/

I just read this article and it is a very good article, in my opinion. Truly it is the Church that is right when it comes to matters of sexuality, not society.
 
Holly3278 said:
thecatholicspirit.com/columns/faith-in-the-public-arena/religious-freedom-and-the-equality-of-women/

I just read this article and it is a very good article, in my opinion. Truly it is the Church that is right when it comes to matters of sexuality, not society.
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I don’t think it’s sexuality per se that’s the problem. If the Catholic Church teaches that sex outside marriage is wrong, then you may get quite a few Catholics listening. But the church teaches that women are not allowed to control their fertility. And most, almost all, Catholic women disagree with this.

And in any case, less contraception means more unwanted babies which means…more abortions.

Let’s say that they could put something in the water that would guarantee that you couldn’t get pregnant. Unless you actually took a pill. There would hardly be any more abortions. I know you can’t solve one evil problem by promoting another, but, really, which is worse as far as you are concerned?
 
I agree with this article. The church does let women control their fertility and their bodies, but forcing Catholic employers to give out contraceptives is wrong. Catholic women are in charge of their bodies and what they want to do with it.
 
The PILL came to be in the 1960s. Abortion became legal, not by a vote of the people, but by a US Supreme Court decision in 1973.

Today America has about 1,000,000 abortions per year. And nearly 40% of children are born to unwed mothers. O how we have grown more and more into an honorable society these past 50 years.

Prior to the 1960s and 1973, WITHOUT the means to divorce sex from true love, many more people abstained from non-martial sex. Even our movies did not glorify wanton sex whenever, wherever, and with whomever as THE WAY to a meaningful life.

What we seem to have lost is a proper understanding of TRUE LOVE. Without true love, too may people tend to use the other person or persons to achieve their own selfish ends.

So I ask, WHAT IS TRUE LOVE?

Until we regain a proper understanding of true love, we cannot understand the proper role of sex.

Religion (Genesis 2) teaches that man needs a suitable mate. Not mates. And the two (not the serial several) shall become one.

In a proper, God wanted, ONE how can there be unequality? The elbow and wrist are different, but not unequal, they are part of a proper ONE.

The secular world has lied to us these past 50 years. They promote separate but equal and set up conflict. Proper religion teaches true love. First Love of God, then love of spouse, and then love of children.

So just how does the Pill and a million abortions a year truly bring about more loving families? And less unwed mothers?
 
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But the church teaches that women are not allowed to control their fertility. And most, almost all, Catholic women disagree with this.

And in any case, less contraception means more unwanted babies which means…more abortions.
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I am very dubious of this common, left-wing media citation about the inner thoughts of Catholic women. Where do they get this notion?

Even if there were some sort of poll or survey on the subject how discerning is this “survey” between the meaning of the terms “disagree” or “disobey” as it relates to Catholic teaching. Just because a practicing Catholic sins does not mean that they believe the Church is wrong.

You can very well say that a practicing Catholic woman (or man) who uses contraception knows that what they are doing is wrong, and can later reconcile themselves with God and His Holy Church once he/she confesses their sins. This does not mean that the Catholic disagrees with the Church.

So what liberties are taken by those responsible for either tabulating the results or touting the conclusions? Is there any such survey about using the Lord’s name in vain; or lying; or impure thoughts? How many Catholics disobey these rules of the Church yet do not disagree with them?

And the other quote shows again Bradski’s desire to follow the wordly authority of man in today’s society rather than God’s. If a couple was truly in a loving relationship as prescribed and followed by the Church no pregancy would ever be unwanted.

Basing the equality of women on the freedom of abortion or contraception is incredibly baseless and obtuse. It is a canard! The very same rules which are applied to women are also aplied to men. As a Catholic a man can not contracept. And it is a grave sin for a Catholic man to facilitate an abortion by his wife.
 
The Leftist idea that a woman must be free of a desire to have babies, and that men, or the Patriarchy, are the eternal enemy, began in full force in 1968 when Pope Paul VI had Humanae Vitae published. The reaction from those inside and outside the Church at the time?

“Within 24 hours, in an event unprecedented in the history of the Church, more than 200 dissenting theologians signed a full-page ad in The New York Times in protest. Not only did they declare their disagreement with encyclical’s teaching; they went one step further, far beyond their authority as theologians, and actually encouraged dissent among the lay faithful.”

Source: Regnum Christi

With the opening of Adult Bookstores in the 1970s, selling graphic, gynecological porn, who became equal? Certainly not a lot of women, who were exploited, and some men. What was once private was now public. An open scandal.

But it cost millions of dollars to set this up, and the planned addiction pattern began. “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”? At that time, along with those behind the Sex without love Revolution, Porn would become the opiate of the masses.

Women are free to avoid men, but apparently, multiple orgasms are preferable to the bothersome and troublesome act of raising a single child. True love has been replaced by ‘just sex,’ like using a toilet.

We must speak up to defend the true family whenever the subject is brought up. The devil is in for a surprise as more turn to the truth, especially the young.

amazon.com/Adam-Eve-After-Pill-Revolution/dp/1586176277

Peace,
Ed
 
Bradski said:
I don’t think it’s sexuality per se that’s the problem. If the Catholic Church teaches that sex outside marriage is wrong, then you may get quite a few Catholics listening. But the church teaches that women are not allowed to control their fertility. And most, almost all, Catholic women disagree with this.

And in any case, less contraception means more unwanted babies which means…more abortions.

Let’s say that they could put something in the water that would guarantee that you couldn’t get pregnant. Unless you actually took a pill. There would hardly be any more abortions. I know you can’t solve one evil problem by promoting another, but, really, which is worse as far as you are concerned?
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Yes, you could put something in the water, or you could educate women on how their bodies work in regards to fertility and show them how, through that knowledge, they can decide when to get pregnant or not. Wow, a moral, natural (so no increase in the risk of cancer found with ABCs), and empowering (educates and places the the woman in charge of when the “intimate” time is) approach. You could even give a name like Planning your family naturally or natural family planning or something like that. But, that would be silly. Far better to assume women can’t be responsible so we need to take that responsibility away from them and put “something in the water.”
 
Holly3278 said:
thecatholicspirit.com/columns/faith-in-the-public-arena/religious-freedom-and-the-equality-of-women/

I just read this article and it is a very good article, in my opinion. Truly it is the Church that is right when it comes to matters of sexuality, not society.
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yes i find it hard that anyone reading anything promulgated by the the church for millenia especially Sacred scripture and encyclicals based on them can possibly mistake them for sometin else Eg: encouraging the degragation of the human person
which is further explored

in this historical perspective
“but sadly many people do not always want to think for themselves they may be misinformed by what people want to think.”
hope this helps
Shalom
God Bless
 
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