Selling our youth and families down river
Introduction To Selling our Youth and Families Down River
I
have become absolutely convinced that there are a number of reasons why
we are seeing an ever growing melt down in sexual mores in this
country, in schools, in government, in media, in our culture along with
the breakdown of the family:
1. Too many churches across
denominational lines have failed to teach a comprehensive chastity
message. They have failed to teach a comprehensive abstinence message
till marriage, all in line with Biblical Truth. They have never taught
the Spiritual reasons-God's Law, emotional, psychological, social and
physical benefits of abstinence till marriage.
2. The biggest reason
why parents are not up in total arms over things which are taught
regarding sexuality in our schools is too many of them, along with
society at large have no clue of what a Chasity message really is about.
They have no idea how this will influence the youth to protect the
marital bed if they were all taught the meaning of true love. (See
below message).
3. Too many people including parents from about the
1950's to 1960's have failed to wait till marriage and thus have failed
themselves and believe that their children will also fail. But this is a
false idea because they themselves were not taught the Spiritual
reasons-God's Law, emotional, psychological, social and physical reasons
to protect the marital bed....
4. Until we solve the Sex outside
marriage issue, the cultural sexual revolution we will never win the
prolife cause, we will never stop the vast majority of divorces, and
save the family.
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Selling our Youth and Families down River
MPS
to give out condoms in the schools
(http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/78556257.html ) ...Milwaukee
Health department distributes Condoms to kids as young as 12 years of
age (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/62440627.html) .
State
Senate bill S324/AB458 to eliminate any abstinence only programs. Our
legislature is about to vote to assure that only that one sentence about
abstinence exists in prevention education. By reversing the 2005 law
and including a bias stipulation in this bill, this law assures that
youth can never be guided towards sexual abstinence. Teen sexual
activity will be normal, acceptable behavior by law. The Gauntlet is
being laid down for the demise of healthy relationships for our youth
and thus for the family.
Through our Government Schools
distributing condoms out to kids, through our government health
department handing out condoms to children as young as 12 years of age,
through our government schools teaching sex education that propagates
sex outside of marriage as permissible, through our media promoting
sexual promiscuity we are selling our youth, our families down river.
We are setting them up for destructive behavior. We are setting them up
for faulty relations, and for marriages in which over half will end in
divorce. We are turning the Judeo-Christian ethic on its ear in favor
of the destructive secular Humanism.
All human generations
previous to our own, and all known human societies besides our own, have
understood that sex had to be controlled; and they have therefore
maintained in place moral and legal checks and sanctions aimed at
insuring the necessary control of the powerful and unruly human sexual
drive for the good of both society and the individuals in it, for the
good of family, husband, wife and children. Our plan to liberate sex by
means of contraception and sex education has now manifestly failed.
KENNETH D. WHITEHEAD
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0035.html
The Boundaries of Sexual Relations -Marriage
The
passion, warmth, beauty, and fire of sexual relations are like that of a
burning fire in a fireplace. Once outside of their natural boundaries,
both sexual relations and fire will destroy the individual, people
around them, and everything you have and own. This is the devastating
effect of sexual passions outside of the natural bonds of marriage.
All
sexual relations outside of marriage work toward weakening and
eliminating marriage as an institution. Anything that weakens and causes
the destruction of marital bonds ultimately works towards the
destruction of the well being and character of children and ultimately
of our society at large.
Why is this so?
Sexual passions before
marriage creates self-centered gratification, using people to meet ones
own selfish sensual desires. Women and men can become sexual commodities
to be bought, sold, and traded, all to meet this self-gratification.
One streetcar becomes as good as another, miss one, there will be
another in fifteen minutes.
If we do not learn to control our
passions before marriage, there will be no reason to expect that our
passions will be controlled after marriage (Tiger Woods and a whole host
of others). Hence, pornography to entice one’s sensual pleasures and
marital affairs run rampant in today’s society, all working to tear
marriages apart.
If we are participating in self-gratification of
sexual relations prior to marriage, we are engaged in using people to
meet our wants, and selfishness--the exact opposite of what marriage is
all about. You see, marriage is meant to be self-giving through
self-sacrifice. We end up marrying the wrong person because we were
blinded by sexual activity, never truly learning what our partner was
like before marriage. We marry wrongly because we marry with an attitude
of what’s in it for me and when the relationships grows tired or weary,
we bail out for another streetcar.
Consequently all sorts of
diseases are spread, many of which are incurable, meaning we carry them
for life and hand them on to our partners-as in promiscuity or spouses
and worse cause physical harm to our offspring-- our babies, our
children. Finally, some sexually transmitted diseases causing
sterilization and some ultimately cause death.
Scripture is clear
on this. Without true repentance, this self-centered gratification
leads to the death of the soul for all eternity.
1 Cor 6:9;
neither the sexual immoral- fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offender nor thieves nor the greedy
nor drunkards, nor slanders nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of
God. Eph 5:5 Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one
who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God. Also see: Leviticus 18:22-25, Romans
1:24-26; 1 Cor. 6:15-19; Flee from sexual immorality. … Sins sexually
sins against his own body. 1 Cor. 10:8; We should not commit sexual
immorality, as some of them did- and in one day twenty-three thousand of
them died. Col. 3:5; 1 Thes. 4:3; Rom 1:29- For pro creation; Gen.
1:28; Mat 19:4-6; For Spiritual unity; Gen. 2:24;
There is A Question That Must Be Answered!!!
The
news media portrays sexual immorality as ok. Many of our schools
portray sexual immorality as a matter of choice. Our entertainment
industry glorifies sexual immorality. Recreational sex is the “in”
thing. This is the philosophy, the religion of Humanism.
If the Church does not teach right and wrong and why, who will??
Side Note
Most
Protestants, Catholics, and society at large do not realize that the
use of contraceptives within the bonds of marriage was taught to be a
grave moral sin against Christ, God and family by all Christian churches
up until the 1930's. The church of England, the Anglican church,
Episcopalians was the first Protestant church to shed it's teachings on
this subject--- you know that church that now ordains Gay Bishops, and
wants to sanctify gay marriages. One by one all of the Protestant
churches abandoned this teaching.
The water shed moment occurred
in the 1960's when finally all Protestant Christians accepted the use of
Contraceptives within the bounds of marriage. Even a substantial number
of priests, bishops, and Lay Catholics also abandoned the Church's
teachings on this matter.
The Christian teachings have been so
denigrated from within the ranks of Protestant churches as well as x
number of Catholics and society at large that this has become a pet
peeve of mine, for multiple reasons. First my lack of understanding of
this teaching in the past. Second because our educational establishment
our government schools propagation that sex out side of marriage is
permissible as long as they contracept. Schools teach abstinence may be
the best choice but they have any number of contraceptive options,
abstinence is not taught as a moral right and wrong. Instead we teach
them how to violate the statutory rape laws which says it illegal for
them to be having sex in the first place, and instead teach them state
confidentiality laws so they understand where they can obtain all of
these reproductive health services without parental knowledge.
Contraception and Marriage 1
It
has been more than 40 years since the Church of Christ has stopped
teaching that contraception within the bonds of marriage was considered a
grave moral sin against God, Christ and his church. Just what have been
the results. Wide spread "conjugal infidelity and the general lowering
of morality." Few would deny that the rates of abortion, divorce, family
breakdown, wife and child abuse, venereal disease and out of wedlock
births have all massively increased since the mid-1960’s. Obviously, the
birth control pill has not been the only factor in this unraveling. But
it has played a major role.
Men in general have lost respect for
woman and "no longer care for her physical and psychological
equilibrium," to the point that that women are considered "as a mere
instruments of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and
beloved companion." In other words contraception might be marketed as
liberating for women, but the real "beneficiaries" of birth control
pills and devices have been men.
The widespread use of
contraception has placed a "dangerous weapon...in the hands of those
public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies." As we have
since discovered, eugenics didn't disappear with Nazi racial theories in
1945. Population control policies are now an accepted part of nearly
every foreign aid discussion.
Contraception has mislead human
beings into thinking they have unlimited dominion over their own bodies,
relentlessly turning the human person into the object of his or her own
intrusive power...A man and a woman participate uniquely in the glory
of God by their ability to co-create new life with Him. At the heart of
contraception, however, is the assumption that fertility is an infection
which must be attacked and controlled, exactly as antibiotics attack
bacteria. In this attitude, one can also see the organic link between
contraception and abortion. If fertility can be misrepresented as an
infection to be attacked, so too can new life.
Contraception and The Law 2
In
1960 before the widespread "contraceptive mentality", our schools,
churches, government and media all sent the same "sex is for marriage"
message to our children. Kids behaved responsibly and teen pregnancy
was rare. The out of wedlock birth rate was only 6% among all ages in
the white population and 22% among blacks.
But in the subsequent
years of that same decade, the "pill" was invented and the "sexual
revolution" started, and Griswold v. Connecticut said married folks had a
"right" to use contraception (1965 was a landmark case in which the
Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected
a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited
the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7-2, the Supreme Court
invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to
marital privacy".). The 70's brought us Title X "sex education" and a
"contraception right" for unmarried folks in Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972
Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to
possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by
implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially
nonprocreative sexual intercourse). Then in the next year 1973 the
"right to abortion".
And what did this government mandated sex education and contraceptive mentality accomplish?
In
1992, the out of wed lock birth rate had tripled to 22% in the white
population and 68% in the black population. Keep in mind that during
this 32 year interval since 1960, oral contraception usage increased
over 10 fold.
This disaster was predictable. Counsel for the
state defending the Connecticut statute against contraception in the
Griswold case argued that contraceptive access would lead to an increase
in sexual immorality and a weakening of marriage. Mahatma Gandhi said
the same thing after Margaret Sanger lobbied him for his support for
contraception. Gandhi said,
"Artificial methods [of
contraception] are like putting a premium on vice. They make men and
women reckless ... Nature is relentless and will have full revenge for
any such violation of her laws. Moral results can only be produced by
moral restraints. All other restraints defeat the very purpose for
which they are intended. If artificial [birth control] methods become
the order of the day, nothing but moral degradation can be the result."
When
we teach teens contraception rather than abstinence, we give them the
green light for having sex. In fact, we're really telling them it's not
so much the premarital sex that's to be avoided; it's having babies.
Come Let us Reason together
Discover Truth Through Using Our Reason.
In
"Theology of the body For Beginners", "Make no mistake: in the final
analysis the abortion debate is not about when life begins. It is about
the meaning of sex. What most men and women who fight for abortion want
is not so much the "right" to kill their offspring, but the "right" to
have unrestricted sex without consequences."...."But the often
repressive approach of previous generations of Christians- usually
silence or, at most, the incomplete "don't do it" mantra is largely
responsible for the cultural jettisoning of the Church's teaching on
sex"....."A return to God's original plan for the union of the sexes is
the only adequate starting point for the building a culture that
respects the meaning and dignity of human life"....."He believes that if
what the church teaches is objectively true, then human
experience---subjective as it is---should offer confirmation of that
truth".... 3
All human generations previous to our own, and all
known human societies besides our own, have understood that sex had to
be controlled; and they have therefore maintained in place moral and
legal checks and sanctions aimed at insuring the necessary control of
the powerful and unruly human sexual drive for the good of both society
and the individuals in it. Our plan to liberate sex by means of
contraception and sex education has now manifestly failed. ....
All
sexual relation outside of marriage ultimately use the other party to
satisfy their sensual desires. Anyone who treats a person as the means
to an end does violence to the very essence of the other. Both
parties in any sexual relation outside of marriage are allowing
themselves to be used by the other in order to get what they want out of
the relationship: Each of the persons is mainly concerned with
gratifying his or her own sensual desire and or emotional fulfillment.
This is a false love and is doomed to failure because it is based on
self centered ideals versus self giving relations. 4
Once the
relationship becomes physical, those physical forms of intimacy
increasingly become more central to the relationship, while real
communication, working through problems, and growing in virtue together
gradually takes a back seat. 4
The unitive and the procreative
goods — are inextricably bound . Sexual relations outside the marital
bond are contrary not only to the will of God but to the good of man.
Indeed, they are contrary to the will of God precisely because they are
against the good of man.” 5
Marriage is not just for procreation,
love or sexual pleasure. People have lost their grip on the true
reasons for marrying, hence infidelity, divorce, out-of-wedlock births;
they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires
Marriage is a uniquely “comprehensive” union, meaning that it is shared
at several different levels at once — emotional, spiritual and bodily.
(from Robert P. George) 5
Our hearts were made to love. 3
Chastity
is so necessary for love. Chastity is what makes love possible. It
protects love from falling into selfish, utilitarian attitudes and
enables us to love selflessly — irrespective of the powerful emotions or
sensual delight we may receive from our beloved. If we are to truly
love a person of the opposite sex, we must be able to see much more than
the person's sexual value. 4
"Only the chaste man and the chaste
woman are capable of true love. For chastity frees their association,
including marital intercourse, from that tendency to use a person . . .
and by so freeing it introduces into their life together and their
sexual relationship a special disposition to 'loving kindness." 4
We
must seek to cultivate authentic love for the person himself or herself
by directing our attention to the whole person. By looking beyond the
physical and psychological attributes and seeing the actual person, we
open the door to at least the possibility of willing the good of the
other person as in the virtuous friendship and of performing truly
selfless acts of kindness 4
Authentic love must be integrated
with the higher, nobler aspects of love — such as good will, friendship,
virtue, or self-giving commitment . 4
True love involves
virtue, friendship, and the pursuit of a common good. In Christian
marriage, for example, a husband and wife unite themselves to the common
aims of helping each other grow in holiness, deepening their own union,
and raising children. Furthermore, they should not only share this
common goal, but also have the virtue to help each other get there. 4
In
self-giving love, a man recognizes in a profound way that his life is
not his own. He has surrendered his own will to his beloved. 4
Do
you want a good healthy loving marriage or do you want to settle for
less, for a break down of over 50% of marriages ?? The choice is yours,
life or death. Choose Life! Choose True Love!
1. Message from Fr. Dan July 26, 2009 St John the Evangelist “Humanae Vitae”
2. Wisconsin Consortium of Catholic Physicians and Guilds In Opposition to Senate Bill 324/Assembly Bill 458
3. John Paul II Theology of the Body "Theology of the Body For Beginners" by Christopher West, Ascension Press, 2004.
4. Love and Responsibility by Pope John Paul II "A summary and explanation" by Edward P. Sri
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0071.html
http://www.catholicculture.com/jp2_on_l&r.html
http://www.catholicculture.com/jp2_on_l&r.pdf
5. "The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker", New York Times December 20, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html?scp=1&sq=he%20Conservative-Christian%20Big%20Thinker&st=cse
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