BusinessInsider: Time To Admit It: The Church Has Always Been Right On Birth Control

Painting the Catholic Church as "out of touch" is like shooting fish in a barrel, what with the funny hats and gilded churches. And nothing makes it easier than the Church's stance against contraception.

Many people, (including our editor) are wondering why the Catholic Church doesn't just ditch this requirement. They note that most Catholics ignore it, and that most everyone else finds it divisive, or "out-dated." C'mon! It's the 21st century, they say! Don't they SEE that it's STUPID, they scream.

Here's the thing, though: the Catholic Church is the world's biggest and oldest organization. It has buried all of the greatest empires known to man, from the Romans to the Soviets. It has establishments literally all over the world, touching every area of human endeavor. It's given us some of the world's greatest thinkers, from Saint Augustine on down to René Girard. When it does things, it usually has a good reason. Everyone has a right to disagree, but it's not that they're a bunch of crazy old white dudes who are stuck in the Middle Ages.

So, what's going on?

The Church teaches that love, marriage, sex, and procreation are all things that belong together. That's it. But it's pretty important. And though the Church has been teaching this for 2,000 years, it's probably never been as salient as today.

Today's injunctions against birth control were re-affirmed in a 1968 document by Pope Paul VI called Humanae Vitae. He warned of four results if the widespread use of contraceptives was accepted:

• General lowering of moral standards 
• A rise in infidelity, and illegitimacy 
• The reduction of women to objects used to satisfy men. 
• Government coercion in reproductive matters. 

Does that sound familiar?

Because it sure sounds like what's been happening for the past 40 years.

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Wow, just a fantastic article from a business journal!  A few other notes on the issue, EWTN and Priests for Life are pressing changes against the HHS.  The head of the Southern Baptist Convention is supporting the Catholics and challenging his own congregation to be ready to go to jail over the mandate.  LifeSiteNews posted the story and Drudge headlined it so their site is a bit bogged down at the moment.  Mainstream media has provided a lot of misinformation on the issue, but how good to see the issue of contraception actually being discussed (although the ruling is more specifically an issue with the government to force any religious entity into any universal morally evil act).

Hopefully the HHS ruling doesn't distract from the fact that 2012 is a referendum on Obamacare itself.  Repealing the HHS ruling should not be the focus; the focus should be repealing Obamacare in its entirety.  

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