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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (122705)	5/20/2010 11:57:52 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

you love splitting c*nt hairs. ======================== I think abortion is intrinsically immoral (a position that for me has nothing to do with God), but IMO that's a battle for the hearts and minds of people. The supreme court should be irrelevant. Until there is an extremely strong consensus that it's intrinsically immoral, I would err on the side of freedom and allow the sinners to sin. The church's position on birth control is a rough one. Long ago, I'm sure the idea was have as many Christian children as possible to increase the stock. That may still be true. But if you are anti sex before marriage, then being anti birth control is a natural extension of that. If you win that moral battle, then birth control becomes much less meaningful. By approving of birth control the church would more or less be throwing in the towel on its real moral goal. However, given that only a small percentage of people are going to abstain from sex until marriage these days, you could easily argue that not using birth control is MORE immoral than using it because using it reduces unwanted pregnancy, disease etc... and all the social ills that result because of that.