Victoria Gillick | Catholic parents vs state contraception for teens | Who is the parent? | oo9

Much like the clown in Stephen King's 'It', contraception has done an amazing job of pretending its your friend while devouring the best human society has to offer and covering it in a veil of fear. It separates you from family, from communities, from the children you'll never have. Isolating the options you perceive available to those that rely heavily on increasingly large government. 'We're pro family' they'll tell you. 'This government (insert government of choice) provides free childcare'. So mum and dad can get back out there to earn more taxes for the nanny state to provide that parental arm. Much like a 'free press' there was a time when the family acted has a natural bulwark against an over reaching state. God's plan for society provides many checks and balances. Our fallen human nature needs them. In marriage, family, in society, in national institutions. Institutional/organised religion often get s a bad rep, not warm, fuzzy and free enough. My usual response is to ask the question would I rather an unorganised Armed forces to better repel invasion? No, I wouldn't. To advance the case we present this episode. Skills and systems seem to travel and survive better when part of an institution but so too does wisdom. The secular conservative argument is beginning to catch the coattails of contraception's terrible effects. UK 'feminists' have even been crunching the data. The Catholic church though saw much (possibly all) of this coming from the beginning. Pope Paul VI's document Humanae Vitae was the real life mystic Meg of the 60s. The wisdom then has proved painfully accurate now. Compare it even to the Lambeth conference in the 1930s where the Church of England opened the door to contraception 'just for married couples'.

We put it to you dear viewer. Contraception is not in God's plan Wisdom is a thing. How it survives and grows and is received is a thing. A thing worth fighting for. We may as individuals say we did not start the fire but we have a Christian duty, still, to fight it.