The Catholic Church is always pushing for more government aid for poor people. Why should I pay to support kids who resulted from their ban on contraception?
Huh? I suppose there have been left-wing style social justice advocates, nominally of the church, who've advocated such a thing, but the true Catholic position -- and this is the actual meaning of social justice -- is to obtain critical i.e. food and housing aid to the poor from the most local level first and then move up if absolutely necessary. For example: family, church, employer if any, charity...and if all those fail then government might be the next step but only for essentials, not frills.
Why should I pay to support kids who resulted from their ban on contraception?
Well, in truly needy cases -- and where the local effort has failed -- I believe in helping out children regardless of what their parents did or did not do. This would seem to be consistent with tenets of Christianity.
For one thing, few to none of the kids who become welfare state dependants were conceived and borne by devout Humanae Vitae Catholic married couples. Most state dependents are begotten and borne by unmarried couples.
Secondly, unmarried people have a moral obligation to abstain from sexual intercourse. Married people have a moral obligation to procreate responsibly, i.e. to have kids they can reasonably expect to support; and to limit births by moral means if they have a grave reason to avoid more pregnancies.
Hence the Catholic Church is not to be held responsible for fornication and abortion, which would be reduced to zero if people lived an observant Catholic life.
None of the moral law subjects YOU (or anybody else) to an obligation to support an irresponsible, dependency-creating, secular welfare state agenda.
It IS??
Who knew!!!