Posted on 05/25/2006 9:14:50 PM PDT by nrfcmedia
"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.
By letting you do the work, it is hoped that you will do more than just read them.
And yet fertility treatments such as artificial insemination that enable "sterile" people to have children are also bad...
That is because the current process leaves thousands of people in frozen limbo.
The speaker's opinion is that birthcontrol is selfish, not that people shouldn't be permitted choice in the matter.
It's 1:15 AM. I'm not going to read them. Protestants sling scripture references around. I thought, perhaps, that you might be more accommodating.
You missed a teaching opportunity.
The speaker is exactly right.
You don't have to read them now. It's probably a good idea that you don't. Anyway, I did just post the verses from Galatians in another post to you.
It is more than an appropriate topic for a commencement speech at a Catholic University, I disagree.
And the opinion is nonesense, because it depends on individual circumstances. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. Some couples are not fit to rear children for a host of reasons, including not wanting children, and some are not fit to raise more than a certain number of children, due to emotional and economic reasons, and few I think are fit to raise more than 3 or 4, unless they give that task their total and absolute emotional and financial attention, and are totally committed to it.
Yes, they are! Well done. : )
I responded to your post because you implied the speaker was advocating for legislation prohibiting birth control and was opposing choice. He wasn't.
The Church is run by the same people who run Mexico. But even good and holy Catholics have not been willing to live the Gospel to the full. St. Vincent de Paul did much good work among the poor and had many followers. But when he proposed to take in and support the bastard children of the poor, and to establish orphanages, he ran head on into the deep prejudice against
such women. It was thought that God was punishing them for their immorality. Vincent almost alone found it in his heart to take these babes in.
Wasn't he talking to a particular audience whose habits he knew well?
How could you possibly know that? The Bible clearly speaks of how much He said that went unrecorded.
Up is down.
Amazing how the topic of contraception brings out peoples' bile!
Just checking back - I can hardly believe a lot of the comments. The fact is that the teachings of all of Christianity forbade contraception until various Protestant denominations in the 1930s, from what I've read. Contraception and abortion are also condemned in the Vedic scriptures (foundation of Hinduism), not sure about Orthodox Judaism.
Amazing how people get touchy when the topic of sex and responsibility and morality get brought up. Recreational sex without any responsibility must be defended at all costs, apparently.
what is selfish is popping out children you can't care for that become a burdan on society.
Hmm, I've heard this argument before. It was people in the first group mentioned in my tagline who used it.
If you don't have the means to raise a family, wrap it up or pop some pills.
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