"Birth Control Is Selfish" ... The Message Society Doesn't Want To Hear

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"Birth Control Is Selfish" ... The Message Society Doesn't Want To Hear

This past weekend graduates of Saint Thomas University were treated to a surprising speech by 21-year-old graduating student Ben Kessler. Some graduates walked out, many jeered, and others spewed profanities in response to his speech.

Just what did he speak of which caused such an outcry? The War in Iraq? Border control? NSA spying? None of the above.

So, what exactly did Mr. Kessler do wrong? He touched society's third rail: contraception. Mr. Kessler had the audacity to call the use of birth control "an act of selfishness."

One would have expected some encouraging applause from the audience, after all St. Thomas is a Catholic institution. The reality is that many of these Catholic students and family members are themselves using contraception, and Mr. Kessler confronted their lifestyle and the use of contraception.

Mr. Kessler dared to speak about this issue and people didn't want to hear his message. What happened to the exchange of ideas universities are famous for? Where were all of the supposed "open minds" at during this speech? Instead of listening to his speech with an open mind, it seems that they were too busy keeping themselves ignorant by jeering and ridiculing him.

Society has a lust affair with birth control to the point of not being able to think outside of the box. We live in a contraception "matrix" where it's impossible to believe that there are any harmful effects on marriage, society, and the health of women.

This "contraception deception" is the primary force behind the attacks against the contra-contraception message.

For the most part, society doesn't want to hear the message. This message is that, in our culture, contraception leads to increases in abortion, teenage sex, affairs (and subsequent divorce), health problems, and statutory rape. These facts are apparent by simply comparing statistics.

Why are people willfully preserving their ignorance? For the past century, people have lived in a society that endorses the practice of a contraceptive lifestyle of easy, commitment free, and on-demand sex without challenging them to question possible adverse effects.

Mr. Kessler could have spoke about the start of a career, the discernment of a vocation, the undertaking of new responsibilities, or many other subjects related to graduation. But hopefully his bold message will help to his classmates to question the force-fed information they have heard all their lives concerning human sexuality and contraception and arrive at a more natural, healthier view of human sexuality.

The contraception debate is long overdue, and it is people like Mr. Kessler who are breaking down the walls of ignorance, selfishness, and deception. Society may be resistant to this message, but over time the truth will prevail.

[sinkspur]

Somehow, I don't see much Jesus in the latter at all.

Jesus would not have spoken to a group of graduating college students about birth control. You know that.

[peyton randolph]

I wasn't aware that Mexico had a starvation problem. Can you cite the relevant articles for me?

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Unlike you, I actually go there on a regular basis...and have lived there. Want an article, Google it. I'm not your researcher.

[sinkspur]

Life isn't just about the material world.

To someone who's hungry, that is ALL that life is about.

[Pyro7480]

I've lived in different parts of Mexico. Same reactions. Have kids...but if you're poor, don't bother the Church. It is there to collect money...not dole it out.

You've lost what little credibility you had by that statement. There are Catholic (meaning part of the Church) charitable organizations that help the poor, not just in Mexico, but in almost all the countries in the world.

[peyton randolph]

Life isn't just about the material world.

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Amazing how that works. The Catholic Church is the largest private landowner in the world...yet somehow "material" stuff isn't important.

[Pyro7480]

Amazing how that works. The Catholic Church is the largest private landowner in the world...yet somehow "material" stuff isn't important.

Yet, what it does with that land is what you fail to mention.

[Antoninus]

Jesus would not have spoken to a group of graduating college students about birth control. You know that.

I know that? Hardly! I don't think Christ himself would have been anywhere near as circumspect as this kid was.

[Antoninus]

Unlike you, I actually go there on a regular basis...and have lived there. Want an article, Google it. I'm not your researcher.

In other words, "There is no starvation problem in Mexico. I withdraw my statement." Is that what you meant to say?

[Pyro7480]

To someone who's hungry, that is ALL that life is about.

Matthew 4:4, John 6:35

[peyton randolph]

There are Catholic (meaning part of the Church) charitable organizations that help the poor, not just in Mexico, but in almost all the countries in the world.

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Name me one country in the world in the Church's entire history where the Church has been the net donor, rather than the net beneficiary, of wealth. Not going to find it. The Church is a societal leech. I'm not knocking Christianity. I'm stating that organized religions find a way to profit at that the expense of those they purport to serve...that they do it in God's name is abominable.

[peyton randolph]

Is that what you meant to say?

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No. You're being an @ss. Cross into any border town tomorrow and check out the kids who are begging. They are severely undernourished.

 

[RobbyS]

When Dr. King took his Civil Rights movement north to Chicago, he was shocked by the condition of Negros in the North. They had more money than their kinfolk in the South, but their families had disintegrated. The Black Muslims recruited kids like Malcolm X by showing them how to live like--ironically--respectable Church families.

[Pyro7480]

I'm stating that organized religions find a way to profit at that the expense of those they purport to serve...that they do it in God's name is abominable.

Oh, so this is about organized religion in general now, is it?

[sinkspur]

I don't think Christ himself would have been anywhere near as circumspect as this kid was.

Maybe you're right. Jesus would have thundered at a bunch of college kids about the evils of contraception, especially since He never had a single word to say on the subject in His actual public life.

The self-righteousness on this thread is simply unbelieveable.

[Pyro7480]

No. You're being an @ss.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[sinkspur]

Matthew 4:4, John 6:35

Spit out the quotes. Or have you suddenly turned Protestant?

[peyton randolph]

Oh, so this is about organized religion in general now, is it?

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The specific topic was the Catholic Church and its stance against birth control. The comment regarding organized religion was made to clarify that I'm not picking on the Catholic Church while ignoring the faults of other organized religions. However, my comments re: the Church and its position on contraception stand without qualification.
 

[RobbyS]

You are blaming the Church for the racism of the whites who have always run Mexico. The spirit of the conquistadores lives on, baby.

[Pyro7480]

Maybe you're right. Jesus would have thundered at a bunch of college kids about the evils of contraception, especially since He never had a single word to say on the subject in His actual public life.

Technically true, but He spoke about it through His Spirit.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
-Galatians 5: 19-21

[peyton randolph]

You are blaming the Church for the racism of the whites who have always run Mexico.

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Nope. If you read my comments, I specifically described the Church's mistreatment of poor Indians.