Obama Opposes Ban on Sex-Selection Abortion
This President has broken all boundaries of decency, yet campaigns as the champion of women.
Intellect & Romance: The Saints on Contraception, Abortion & Sex in Marriage
“I am supposing, then, although you are not lying [with your wife] for the sake of procreating offspring, you are not for the sake of lust obstructing their procreation by an evil prayer or an evil deed. Those who do this, although they are called husband and wife, are not;…
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I’ve discovered Christ in a deeper way through suffering than I ever did through blessing.
Source: praise-yeshua
The greatest wonder of all is that, being perfect and enjoying perfect happiness, He ever should have made a world. And if He did make a world, He could only have had one motive for making it. It could not add to His perfection; it could not add to His truth; it could not increase His happiness. He made a world only because He loved, and love tends to diffuse itself to others.
(via goldenfeet)
Source: jejwood
The human race has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
Flowers for Hamlet: Why "medically necessary" birth-control makes the war on women counterproductive.
What is the war on women about? Well, it’s a multifacted issue, but I imagine the average feminist, when asked, would say it boils down to reproductive health care access and rights.
In the hot debates over the HHS mandate’s contraceptive coverage, the idea of using oral contraceptives as…
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Law professor says flawed view of sex threatens religious freedom
“These women are not talking about marriage, poverty or the wellbeing of children, Alvaré observed. Rather, they are simply saying that they want a regular sex life with a constant supply of contraception, and they want someone else to pay for it.”
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A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope. Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world.
Abortion is Anti-Woman, and supports Eugenics; Quotes by Margaret Sanger
From Lovelikefirewrks
The more we keep pushing to keep abortion legal and keeping pushing to find no fault in it, the less emphasis for need on maternal care there will be. What about the women that want to have the baby? Since society keeps saying, “It’s youre body. Go do what you want. Do…
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The Life of Julia
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/opinion/bennett-obama-campaign/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
“The Life of Julia” on the President’s website is one of the most frightening things I’ve ever seen. A person who is dependent on the state at every stage of her life, from early childhood until death. A person who amasses debt before she is able to pay for it. A person who embraces birth control as personal salvation from responsibility for her sexual actions. A person who has a child with no mention of marriage, husbandhood or fatherhood in the picture.
A backwards society where the family unit is totally disolved, and government steps in to fill the void. Where each citizen has total reliance on the state in nearly every aspect of their life, from education to healthcare to reproduction. This is the ideology of modern liberalism. The President is masquerading as a champion of women, when in reality his policies are harming womanhood and motherhood most of all.
Also worth noting is the website’s numerous and direct attacks on Catholic women, using previously debunked statistics to distort American views on Church teaching, general practice of the laity and the numerous health hazards and cultural fallouts of using the pill.
Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Keep government OUT of your life, especially your reproduction.
I need opinions on these glasses. Are they too big?
The Distortion of Marriage
I was reading Vogue Magazine today (Don’t ask me why. Just enjoy the chuckle) and I came across an article talking about reporters who are married to politicians, and the chalenges they face—publicly, privately, professionally— when, for example, covering aspects of their husband’s campaigns. Particularly when there are conflicting political perspectives at play.
One quote in the piece represents what I feel is a potent representation of the secular mind:
“I’m an independent person. I don’t necessarily think the same things as my companion”
There are a couple of key words there. ”Independent” and “Companion”. I’ll return to these later. Now, let’s look at the Catholic understanding of Marriage…
Catechism 1601: “The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.”
The key words here are “Covenant” and “partnership of the whole of life” The term “ordered toward” also has very deep meaning, but I’ll have to cover that another time.
The difference between the Catholic and Secular understandings of marriage are very wide. For most secularists, marriage is a contract between individuals. A union of independent people, who are merely companions on a common journey. While it has some resemblance to the Catholic understanding of Marriage on the surface, beneath the surface it’s about as similar as an apple and a pear.
Marriage, in the Catholic mind, is a partnership of the WHOLE OF life. A partnership of two humanities, not just a partnership of two identities, or a partnership of two independent companions. The Church also teaches that marriage isn’t simply a contract, but a covenant. In the same way that God entered into a covenant with the jews, in the same way Christ fulfilled and completed the covenant to include gentiles, in the same way that God maintains that covenant with us today through the sacramental life, a man enters into a covenant with a woman when they are married. A profound, special, solemn union, not just a contract. When you begin to understand the dynamics of “covenant”, and how it vastly differs from a “contract”, marriage takes on a whole new meaning. Maybe I’ll cover “Covenant” in a later podcast.
The Catholic understanding of marriage, is that the couple enter into a covenant, and share the whole of their lives for the benefit and well-being of the family. The additional underlying teaching there is that the beneficiary of the covenant is the family. NOT the self. Not the individual. And that’s another stark difference between the Catholic and Secularist minds. For secularists, marriage is something that can be disolved, in spite of the implications on the family. Since marriage is merely a contract between individuals who are merely companions on a common journey, it would stand to reason that said contract could be disolved should either companion choose to change his course or journey. When the partnership is no longer beneficial to the individuals, the partnership is disolved. And this “corporate shakeup” is always to the detriment of the children—the real losers in this deal. While mommy and daddy live happily ever after on their new respective, separate journeys, the children carry the pain, and damage into their own adulthoods and their own relationships.
I am not suggesting that secularists don’t value marriage, or don’t truly, deeply love each other, and I’m not suggesting that they don’t love their children. I’m not saying that at all. What I am saying however is that Catholics and Secularists do not view marriage the same way. Not by a long shot. As marriage became more secularized, it had the affect of altering and degenerating people’s understanding of Marriage and family, to the degree that it has become something of negotiable value. And this has hurt children, it has hurt individual families, it has hurt the family structure, and it has hurt civilized society as it has produced a culture that is increasingly comprised more of self-interested individuals, rather than co-invested building blocks of society. The evidence is all around you. You only have to look.
[That Crazy Catholic]
-Tim Haines
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Awesome.
