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Snuckles
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posted 25 September 2006 01:18 PM
quote: Abortion foes' new rallying pointConservatives take on contraception By Judith Graham Tribune staff reporter September 24, 2006 Emboldened by the anti-abortion movement's success in restricting access to abortion, an increasingly vocal group of Christian conservatives is arguing that it's time to mount a concerted attack on contraception. Their voices were raised in Rosemont on Friday and Saturday at an unusual anti-abortion meeting that drew 250 people from around the nation to condemn artificial birth control. Experts at the gathering assailed contraception on the grounds that it devalues children, harms relationships between men and women, promotes sexual promiscuity and leads to falling birth rates, among social ills. "Contraception is more the root cause of abortion than anything else," Joseph Scheidler, an anti-abortion veteran whose Pro-Life Action League sponsored the conference, said in an interview. No one knows how many supporters Scheidler and his colleagues have, but conservative leaders are watching to see if the anti-contraception rhetoric gains traction.
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Michelle
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posted 25 September 2006 03:19 PM
Do they? I've never known any Christians who endorsed that, and I was in an evangelical church for years.Actually, scratch that. I knew a Mormon who did it, because she was amazingly regular, and had this fantastic computerized device that would take her temperature and calculate her charts (and it worked - no accidents in the years she used it!) but I think she might also have used condoms on occasion as well. A common misconception (ha, aren't I funny?) about fundamentalists and evangelicals is that they are against birth control. From what I know, this is not true. They are against extramarital sex and homosexuality, but the mainstream evangelical and fundamentalist churches don't preach against contraception. I realize the Catholic church preaches against it. But as I said in another thread, I'm sure I've seen statistics somewhere or other about how many Catholics observe this teaching, and they're in the vast minority nowadays.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Jooge
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posted 26 September 2006 12:00 PM
quote: Originally posted by Michelle: I realize the Catholic church preaches against it. But as I said in another thread, I'm sure I've seen statistics somewhere or other about how many Catholics observe this teaching, and they're in the vast minority nowadays.
See that's the beauty of confession. As long as you go confess all once a week you can do whatever the hell you like during the rest of the week and only have to say a few Hail Mary's as a consequence. All together now.... 'Every sperm sacred, every sperm is great, if a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate'
From: The Land of Opportunity | Registered: Sep 2005
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