Posted on 06/10/2016 6:16:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
60 Percent Think Gay Relationships Are OK, but Only 14 Percent Say Polygamy Is Alright
A large majority of Americans consider birth control and divorce "morally acceptable," according to the findings of a Gallup poll released this week.
Gallup noted Wednesday that nearly nine in 10 Americans consider birth control usage to be morally acceptable and about seven in 10 found divorce to be morally acceptable.
The two items were the top rated issues in a list of 19 different subjects that included gambling, the death penalty, pornography, polygamy, gay or lesbian relations, and abortion.
With its 89 percent favorability rating, birth control was the most accepted on the list, being the lone entrant for the "Highly Acceptable" category.
Divorce was the top entrant for the "Largely Acceptable" category at 72 percent. Other issues in that category included sex between an unmarried man and woman (67 percent), having a baby outside of marriage (62 percent), and gay or lesbian relations (60 percent).
The least morally acceptable act of the issues listed was married men and women having an affair, which had only 10 percent favorability. It fell at the bottom of the "Highly Unacceptable" category.
Joining it in this lowest category were the issues of suicide (18 percent), polygamy (14 percent), and, second to last, cloning humans (13 percent).
"For the past 15 years, Gallup has asked Americans to rate the moral acceptability of different issues. Of the 19 topics included in this year's survey, a majority of Americans view 11 as morally acceptable," reported Gallup.
"Americans' willingness to describe many issues as morally acceptable has grown since 2001, namely for gay or lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between unmarried people."
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If it's so great, why is it a miniscule part of the population. Perhaps, because it is a perversion??
Contraception is not morally acceptable to the Catholic Church.
In rare cases, divorce can be dealt with through annulment.
But always remember that a divorced Catholic can receive the Sacraments as long as he or she does NOT remarry, thus committing the mortal sin of adultery.
Most Americans ...
Most Catholics have not read Humanae Vitae. They don’t want to be informed. Humane Vitae logically points out in detail how birth control, and cultural acceptance of it, is not only the basis for abortion, but also the basis of our cultural sickness- the breakup of the family, promiscuity, struggles with how to deal with homosexuality, just for instance
Published in 1968, it predicted all of this
Thank you, that was basically my next post.
Divorce is totally acceptable when the wife keeps having babies with other men. Not acceptable is when the ex-husband has to pay child support and even alimony to the ex-wife.
It is artificial birth control (not birth control) that the Church opposes. Civil divorce is also not automatically evil...it is divorce and remarriage that is sinful.
Why can’t the author of the article understand this so he phrases his questions properly.
I’m not Catholic.
I have no problem with contraception as long as it is BEFORE conception. After conception it is ABORTION.
A sperm in and of itself is not a person.
An egg in and of itself is not a person.
If contraception can prevent abortions, I’m all for it. The sin is being committed, why include the possibility of pregnancy, leading to abortion, to it?
As far as divorce and remarriage goes, biblically speaking, it is allowed in cases of adultery, so says Jesus.
Matthew 19:9
“I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
The sexual immorality exception (adultery) and the remarriage (marries another woman) exception are clearly stated by Jesus Himself.
Don’t quote me so-called contradictory scriptures. They are irrelevant.
Did Jesus not say what He said, (yes) in Matthew 19:9? Is Jesus a liar? (No) End of discussion.
1 Cor 7:27 "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned."
Not me.
bfl
You stole my post. Good job and thanks
Our kids just kept getting bigger. Number four clocked in at almost 13 lbs. Natural delivery.
I told my wife there was no way I was putting her through that again and got myself fixed.
If y’all folks on the thread disagree with that, you’re welcome to your opinion.
25 Now concerning[g] the betrothed,[h] I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.26 I think that in view of the present[i] distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman[j] marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 29 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
36 If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed,[k] if his[l] passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin. 37 But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. 38 So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.
39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.40 Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
We are no longer a moral nation.
John Adams said our government system could only work with a moral populace. Is it any wonder our government hasnt worked for decades. A moral populace does not tolerate killing unborn children on demand as birth control, which we have been doing for 50 years.
God never abandoned America. America has rejected God. We deserve what is coming for our sins. Collectively. Not everybody deserves this.
First of all, look at the principle the Lord is teaching here:
Matthew 19:6
"Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
Note that the principle as stated by Jesus, He states without exceptions in Mark and Luke:
Mark 10:11-12 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery ("moicheia") against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery ("moicheia").”
Luke 16:18
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery ("moicheia"), and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery ("moicheia")."
Biblical scholars point out that, compared to Mark and Luke, the significant thing in the Matthew readings is that Jesus does not mention “adultery” ("moicheia") as an “exception” (which would violate His own principle, that “what God has joined together” no man must put separate.)
In the so-called “exception,” He uses a different word, "porneia," which means unlawful sexual intercourse. Jesus in Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9 does not use the Greek word "moicheia," which is the Greek word for adultery.
Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful--- ”porneia”) causes her to commit adultery ("moicheia"), and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery ("moicheia").
Matthew 19:9
I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful--- ”porneia”) and marries another, commits adultery ("moicheia").”
So Jesus did not contradict Himself by saying an indissoluble marriage could nevertheless by dissolved by "adultery". He said if the marriage were "unlawful intercourse”, then it could be dissolved because it was not a valid marriage from the beginning that God had joined together.
Our Lord ia talking about situation where there was some severe defect from the beginning, in the first attempted marriage, which would make it invalid from the git-go --- it was NOT something God had joined together in the first place.
Because what GOD has joined together, no one must separate
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