The trouble with news like this...

[conuly]

Is that you know it's somewhat biased, but you don't know if that means it's incorrect.

So. I will simply post an easily verifiable quote.

"I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure." -Joseph Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League

*gags*

For god's sake, sex is disgusting, but fortunately, we've evolved in such a way that most of us overlook that most of the time, so we can spread our genes into the future. We do that by ENJOYING sex. That's what it's for! Even more fortunately, many of us have since learned that we should concentrate on quality instead of quantity and have very few children.

I really don't understand this creepy logic. Honestly.

I'll do some research later this week and decide whether or not I believe this editorializing.

Comments

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt that the quotation accurately depicts Scheidler's thinking. I've read or heard similar from him multiple times before. He's a conservative Catholic and has been an anti-abortion activist for many years.

There's a small, hard-core percentage of Catholic activists who not only wish to outlaw abortion but all forms of birth control. He's a spokesman for them.

[conuly]

*grumbles* That's what I was afraid of. But of course, the injunction to judge not, this fazes him not at all, doesn't it?

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

The Bible is a mirror for the soul. You get from it what you bring to it.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

You know, I always thought that.

Take the fun out of sex and you have two people in an embarassing and compromising position, using their pink bits in ways otherwise unimaginable.

I always wonder about people that're anti-contraception. They've always got tons of kids, so they must not think sex is THAT dirty.

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

It's just Christianity: we're all worthless sinners who should never enjoy anything, because we don't DESERVE to, and only by obeying the Lord's "be fruitful and multiply" (creating armies for Christ) can we head down the path of "redemption" and "forgiveness" for something done by fictional characters. It makes perfect sense. Christianity is the denial and perversion of Life and Nature. Sorry if you're a Christian.

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

Not true; they think having children is the only excuse for it, so you can count the number of times they've had sex by counting their children.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

o____O

So many things wrong with that statement.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt that the quotation accurately depicts Scheidler's thinking. I've read or heard similar from him multiple times before. He's a conservative Catholic and has been an anti-abortion activist for many years.

There's a small, hard-core percentage of Catholic activists who not only wish to outlaw abortion but all forms of birth control. He's a spokesman for them.

[conuly]

*grumbles* That's what I was afraid of. But of course, the injunction to judge not, this fazes him not at all, doesn't it?

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

The Bible is a mirror for the soul. You get from it what you bring to it.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

You know, I always thought that.

Take the fun out of sex and you have two people in an embarassing and compromising position, using their pink bits in ways otherwise unimaginable.

I always wonder about people that're anti-contraception. They've always got tons of kids, so they must not think sex is THAT dirty.

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

It's just Christianity: we're all worthless sinners who should never enjoy anything, because we don't DESERVE to, and only by obeying the Lord's "be fruitful and multiply" (creating armies for Christ) can we head down the path of "redemption" and "forgiveness" for something done by fictional characters. It makes perfect sense. Christianity is the denial and perversion of Life and Nature. Sorry if you're a Christian.

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

Not true; they think having children is the only excuse for it, so you can count the number of times they've had sex by counting their children.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

o____O

So many things wrong with that statement.