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.
"You'll notice that I didn't address you directly in my statement, but refered to "many". That was not done accidentally"
I see. So the fact the post was addressed to me does not mean you were including me in this "many"
I haven't read the transcript, so I can't say if this was covered or not.
SD
>>>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.<<<
"But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, Weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."
Conscious or not, many seem to think this way.
Embracing an idea held by all Christian churches and governments until the mid 20th Century is hardly a novel introduction to "conservatism."
SD
"women today are selfish and narcissistic....and men that covet their company are no better"
Ummmm....so exactly WHO are these men going to have babies with if they aren't to covet the company of today's selfish and narcissistic women?
Christ never taught on the subject of birth control. The Church does, and the Church's teaching on the subject has changed.
The Church's current position, that a couple may, with good reason, choose to space births is a departure from the previous teaching that couples are bound to accept children as they come. In fact, the notion that a couple may express physical love for one another for purposes other than procreation was anathema not all that many years ago.
"It was meant as it was written. If you're reading more into it than intended, that's on you."
Of course it is.
"tell him he'd better get off his high horse."
*And then you'd ride off into the sunset on a kitten
My statement was, of course, utter rubbish. It was meant to point out the foolishness of the post I was responding to. I am in fact blessed to be a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
I think that there are two types of 'Conservative' running around. For sake of discussion, I call them 'Social' conservatives and 'Political' conservatives.
To a 'political' conservative, conservative is meant as in "conservative estimates" or "conservatvie with your money".
A political conservative believes in being careful with our money, careful with proposed solutions to problems, careful with our defense (careful meaning 'stay strong, just in case'), and on and on.
A social conservative, as I understand it, wants to "conserve" older ways of doing things.
In my silly opinion, of course!
What's more shocking is the people who claim to be Catholic and have decided which teachings of the Church are wrong or out dated. People just want their ears tickled these days.
Kessler's speech covered more that using artificial contraception.
"The Church's current position, that a couple may, with good reason, choose to space births is a departure from the previous teaching that couples are bound to accept children as they come. In fact, the notion that a couple may express physical love for one another for purposes other than procreation was anathema not all that many years ago."
This makes me wonder. Did this boy use the term "birth control is selfish" or did he say "artificial contraception is selfish"
Because the Church is not against birth control when it is done using natural methods.
*He also didn't say anything about cannibalism
What's for dinner, deac?
BTW, you are full of it when it comes to your false charge the Church changed doctrine
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