What's Legal v. What's SmartWe are living in a very pro-choice, pro-contraception legal and social environment. Suppose a person believes, as I do, that some of what people choose to do with their right to contraception is problematic, from the personal perspective and the public policy perspective. Let me be more specific: an overwhelming majority of the non-marital sexual activity in this country is either dumb or destructive, or both. What exactly are we allowed to say or do about that without people hyper-ventillating that we're about to take away their right to contraception? Is there no place in this discussion for a simple statement that, even though you are allowed to do it, you shouldn't do it?
Precisely because we do have so much freedom, precisely because this area is so personal, we ought to have a lively cultural and social space where the pro's and con's of personal decisions can be aired.
Thanks Maggie for giving us this space.
posted by Dr J Roback Morse at
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The situation is extremely complicated in a society that is obsessed with sexual activity. The media and the porn industry, which includes Hollywood, are out of control invading the minds of youth and adults daily with lurid, obscene activities. The ACLU frightens the people and judges into imagining that it would be a violation of the First Amendment to curtail this smut peddling. But the people have a right to control the moral standards of their society and define moral turpitude.
It would be great to outlaw the dispensing of contraceptives to minors in high schools or through clinics but it is still more urgent to close down the broken sewer lines that pour porn into our society and to provide quality education programs that emphasize the importance and meaning of marriage, faithfulness, and pre-marital abstinence.
A good start in the direction of affirming marriage is to support the Religious Coalition for Marriage in its work to have the Senate pass the Marriage Protection Amendment this June 6th. Find out how through the RCM website: www.rcm.org
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