- Funny video on condoms - 1 Update
| lenona321@yahoo.com: Apr 25 08:22AM -0700 On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 12:47:34 PM UTC-4, Camellia Sinensis wrote: > >Lenona. > Where did you get that dumb idea? The LDS Church (based in Utah) has never > been against birth control. That is strictly up to the couple. Including unmarried teen couples? Or unmarried adult couples in very small towns? Ha. Anyone who was born in the late 1950s and tried to buy condoms as a teen in the 1970s, almost ANYWHERE in the U.S., will tell you how humiliating the store clerks could be. At any rate, I've never heard that the LDS Church is exactly friendly to those who want to marry and have lots of sex and have NO children whatsoever. I.e., the childfree, whom other churches describe as engaging in "moral rebellion." From Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY: "this worldview [of intentional childlessness] is sick...Christians must recognize that this rebellion against parenthood represents nothing less than an absolute revolt against God's design." "Couples are not given the option of chosen childlessness in the biblical revelation." And here's an amusing response to that, with references to St. Paul's celibacy, plus the Mormon Church: http://www.brucegourley.com/writings/inresponseto/almohlerchildlessness.htm Finally, here's an interesting perspective from a Mormon woman (who did make more or less the same points you made - but note that the young women getting physical exams were apparently engaged to be married): https://askmormongirl.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/ask-mormon-girl-how-do-mormons-feel-about-contraception/ Excerpt: ...Want more evidence that Mormons think contraception is A-OK? A 2004 article from the BYU student newspaper reported that at least 80% of the young women who go to the BYU Health Center for premarital gynecological exams request some form of birth control. Go Cougars! Maybe it wasn't this way thirty years ago. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a popular Mormon musical called Saturday's Warrior that put a negative spin on limiting family size (sing it with me now: "Zero Population is the an-swer, my friennnnnd!") and sent lots of good LDS couples home to bed to try for just one more "Saturday's Warrior" baby. These days, while you'll still find young LDS families with seven or more children--bless them!--a recent mantra I've heard in Mormon circles declares that "three is the new six."... (snip) There are 55 comments. Lenona. |
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