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I am not telling you how to live your life. Contraception is legal & its a free country. However, as a Catholic, part of the spiritual works of mercy are to counsel the ignorant & admoish sinners. I am not judging the soul of people who use birth control, but I am bound by my faith to point out that it is sinful & not in accordance with God’s law. I’m sure as a reasonable conservative/Christian, you would agree that we all must judge BEHAVIORS and not SOULS. Judging souls, obviously, is for God alone to do.

That being said, there is much wisdom in the Church’s teachings regarding the contraceptive mentality & its inherent evil. I just wish you would take the time to read that information.

As far as statistics to validate what I said, the Guttmacher institute has compiled lots of data over the years regarding the use of various types of birth control among women seeking abortions. Earlier this year, they released a report that upwards of 50% of abortions are done on women who were contracepting when they got pregnant. Furthermore, this article

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html

shows that the ovewhelming majority of American women in their childbearing years are using birth control. Assuming that those stats are true, how do you explain the high rate of illegitimate births & the 1.3 million abortions per year other than contraceptive failure. I submit to you that the use of contraceptives is a lie (the sex-with-no-strings lie) and an evil that has contributed to the breakdown of our moral fabric in American society.

I do not think that I am holier-than-thou. I am a sinner in great need of God’s mercy. Beleive me. I just feel strongly that the contraceptive mentality is a lie, an evil, and has brought about a great deal of problems. I do not want to see others go down that road.