The connection between contraception and the LGBT community

Many Catholics today already possess the intuition that there is a crucial link, so to speak, between Humanae Vitae and homosexuality. They can see how the severing of the unitive and procreative meanings of marital relations—and the reduction of marital relations to mere “sex”—paved the way for the ideologies of “orientation” and “gender” that generate so-called “sexual minorities” and “sexual identities.”

Yet, the genie was let out of the bottle so long ago that most of us can no longer see just how glaringly obvious this connection really is. To get a glimpse, one needs to go back to the beginning of the ideological roots that gave us “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality” and spawned the chaos we have now.

And so the new “normal” emerged—the term “heterosexual” was untethered from its “morbid” status and “procreative sex” fell by the wayside as a norm. A new norm began to emerge: the bright line between normal and abnormal was no longer whether your acts were procreative or non-procreative, but was instead about “who” your sex partner was...

Timing is everything. We were discussing this topic just last night, though the topic was on why kids don't believe in God as much as they did previously.

The author says, at the end (yes...reading the article, what a concept...)

There is only one real way home. We need to turn around, stop burning our bridges, and begin to build again.

But the difficulty is that straights are part of this problem. That is, while it's convenient to "bash the gays" the reality is that straights engaging in "the act" outside of marriage are de facto guilty of committing the same mortal sin. And it's a double whammy on the part of straights' souls if they've divorced their spouse. It's a triple-whammy if the kids get mentally mangled in that act of parental selfishness.

The destruction of the family is, in many way, THE greatest contributing factor to the rise of collectivism and the war against individualism. And Marx and Engels were transparent about it in the Manifesto:

Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

I would love to see lots of prodigal children return to God and a repudiation of Marxism...but given how you need straights AND divorcés to repent and tacitly acknowledge their "equality" with gays on this sin, I'm not holding my breath.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.