{"id":1038,"date":"2012-04-22T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:08:27","slug":"contraceptives-and-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/04\/contraceptives-and-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Contraceptives and Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post <\/em>gets a thumb up for Michelle Boorstein\u2019s article, Young Catholic women try to give church\u2019s position on birth control new sheen. <\/em><\/a>Last weekends article cites Ashley McGuire, who is campaigning with other young, religiously conservative Catholic women who are trying to change the image of \u201cwhat may be Catholicism\u2019s most-ignored teaching in regard to the ban on birth control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese women are hardly renegades,\u201d wrote Boorstein. The women are arguing \u201cthat church theology has been poorly explained and encouraged, they want to shift the image of a traditional Catholic woman from one at home with eight kids to one with a great, communicative sex life, a chemical-free body and babies only when the parents believe the time is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

I tend to agree: Church leaders have been known once in a while, to lack in the skill-set of teaching properly theological issues and giving appropriate encouragement. To be honest, I would have a difficult time heeding marital advice from a man who took a vow of celibacy. Besides, there is no record that Christ Jesus attempted to regulate sex between married couples.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Bible has quoted Jesus as saying, \u201cBeware of the teachers of the law\u201d? (Luke 20:46, NIV)<\/p>\n

Whether it was the nation\u2019s recent administrative mandate<\/a> that faith-based charities, schools, and hospitals provide birth control and reproductive services in health insurance plans, effective January 2013, or these young Catholic women, the touchy topic of contraceptives and doing right by God has been urged out into the open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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