Posted on 08/19/2015 12:38:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
No jack@$$ed news flack can seriously use the ‘not having experience’ argument on anyone after selling the sheeple on BO.
Ditto.
Truth!
It just makes him like a wimp who can’t stand up and sold out to the left.
Which would do more towards ending abortion...
The unpopular person who has been against abortion in all its forms as well as being against contraception but who no one heeds or will elect and thus will never stop an abortion...and might even turn so many people off harping against contraception and the rape pill that we lose what ground we have.
Or the popular person who though not an absolutist, is sufficiently well spoken and respected to get elected and bring an end to some abortions by shining light on the issue and will confront it in the areas where victory is possible, taking us further towards our objective?
Just asking because it was Ronald Reagan who said don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good. And God chose imperfect spokesmen, did He not?
17. Upright men can even better convince themselves of the solid grounds on which the teaching of the Church in this field is based, if they care to reflect upon the consequences of methods of artificial birth control. Let them consider, first of all, how wide and easy a road would thus be opened up towards conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality. Not much experience is needed in order to know human weakness, and to understand that men -- especially the young, who are so vulnerable on this point -- have need of encouragement to be faithful to the moral law, so that they must not be offered some easy means of eluding its observance. It is also to be feared that the man, growing used to the employment of anti-conceptive practices, may finally lose respect for the woman and, no longer caring for her physical and psychological equilibrium, may come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion.
Let it be considered also that a dangerous weapon would thus be placed in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies. Who could blame a government for applying to the solution of the problems of the community those means acknowledged to be licit for married couples in the solution of a family problem? Who will stop rulers from favoring, from even imposing upon their peoples, if they were to consider it necessary, the method of contraception which they judge to be most efficacious? In such a way men, wishing to avoid individual, family, or social difficulties encountered in the observance of the divine law, would reach the point of placing at the mercy of the intervention of public authorities the most personal and most reserved sector of conjugal intimacy... -Humanae Vitae
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