The cost of contraception
We stand at the crossroads of consequence: the confluence of social paths that intersect individual behavior and human freedom.
Upon the narrow road walks the moral conscience, unflinching witness to the transcendent principles of the Natural Law -- the VERITAS of Creation that defends the good, protects human life, and sustains ordered liberty.
On the opposing path hobbles the incorrigible spirit -- that diabolical accuser, well traveled in carnal pursuits: He who, to flee his own reflection, corrupts innocence; who, to ensnare the prideful, vanquishes conscience and perverts reason; who, to capture the slothful, despises sacrifice; and who, to imprison the sensual, pursues pleasure. We see the spoiler of nations: Self worship.
The collapse of culture, the shifting of personal responsibility to the state, financial ruin and enslavement -- all naturally follow. Normalizing behavioral aberrations begets the bane of humanity -- Utopia -- that remorseless murdering thief of true human liberty.
Sexual pleasure is a gift from God, balanced with the responsibility incurred by the union He ordained. What more expedient path to corrupt man than to destroy the most precious gift -- life?
Human sexuality is ordered to the good of man. Men and Women are created having the conception of new life as their natural end. By virtue of all components the system is designed to produce offspring. We are more than penis and vagina! Thus a male possesses testicles and sperm; a female, ovaries, eggs and uterus.
Life is the objective reason for sex -- not the other way around; its pleasure is subordinate to this first purpose. Contraception inverts and defeats this end -- substituting pleasure for the promise of new life. Thus its practice is intrinsically disordered. The evil of contraception is that it devalues life; and once pursued it can never satiate the resultant hedonistic impulse that ultimately destroys life, physically and spiritually.
Contraception, the most cunning assault on the Natural Order, eventually undermines the common good. This rebellion against God's design results in unlimited cultural perversions. Once the intended natural end is divorced from the procreative act, no argument exists to define human sexuality or to defend life. Sexuality degenerates into selfish "acts of friction."
Participant and outcome are irrelevant: whether the action occurs alone, between spouses or the unmarried, between individuals of the opposite or same sex; between adult or parent and child; between siblings or children; between human and animal; or by petri dish -- it matters little, if at all. Abortion becomes but a latent act of contraception; homosexual sodomy, just another frictional "lifestyle." The individual and culture devolve by an insidious cruel indifference to the Natural Law; creating in its stead a disdain for moral conscience, right reason, innocence, personal responsibility, sacrifice, family, cultural unity, fiscal solvency -- and ultimately life.
Americans are now being coerced by an increasingly obnoxious belligerent federal power, hostile to moral conscience and liberty, to subsidize behavior; and to include these acts with accidents of natural risk -- instances for which insurance companies pool the financial resources of willing participants, so to minimize individual liability for those events beyond personal control: disasters, medical uncertainty and death. Forcing the American People to subsidize behavior -- and particularly that which defies the Natural Order -- will ultimately destroy our freedom and all that makes life worth living.
Bruce C. Desautels
Stratton, Nebraska