Christian anthropology versus the Sexual Revolution

PETER KREEFT

How does Christ revolutionize the Sexual Revolution? Not by turning back the clock, not by a new Victorianism, not by opposing religion to sex, but by showing their real and profound connection.

To see that the Sexual Revolution has been radical in thought as well as behavior, just look at the revolution in language. When people use the word "morality" today they almost always mean sexual morality. That's a remarkable new development, an astonishing narrowing; it's as if we started to use the word "state" to mean only Russia, or the word "technology" to mean only "computers". The reason for the new development is obvious from my two comparisons: sex, Russia, and computers are where there have been the most radical revolutions.

No one speaks of a revolution in any other area of morality. No one speaks of the Property Revolution or the Bearing False Witness Revolution. In fact the rest of the natural moral law is pretty much still in place. Almost no one defends terrorism, sadism, cannibalism, insider trading, nuclear war, environmental pollution, rape, hypocrisy, torture, or murder. We are still "judgmental" about those things. But if it has anything to do with sex we dare no longer be "judgmental".

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Not Abortion but Foeticide?

True to form the ABC refuses to associate abortion with anything negative. So the abortion of unwanted unborn females in India (which is a bad thing) is not abortion but foeticide.

So did this couple who aborted their unborn twin sons commit abortion or foeticide?

Who was missing from the March for Life?… The news media.

by Sheila Liaugminas | 28 Jan 2011

Last year Newsweek tried to claim young women were the ones missing. That fallacy exposed, they tried just ignoring it this year. So did most other big outlets. But media blackouts don’t work anymore. Except to marginalize the media…

In all the places that did cover Monday’s massive March for Life on the Mall of Washington, one theme emerged more than ever before: “the new face of the pro-life movement is young, vocal and rapidly expanding.”

Continue reading at MercatorNet.com

Abortionist charged with murder

by Sheila Liaugminas | 27 Jan 2011

Jarring headline. Not that abortion doesn’t take human life every day. But startling to see that law enforcement and media actually noticed.

It took a particularly gruesome example to get their attention.

Continue reading Abortionist charged with murder at MercatorNet.com

Couple aborts twin boys for girl | Herald Sun

“It’s All About Me.” More disgusting behaviour from supporters of abortion and IVF.

January 08, 2011

A COUPLE so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the sex of their next child.

The couple, who have three sons and still grieve for a daughter they lost soon after birth, are going to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to win the right to select sex by IVF treatment.
They say they want the opportunity to have the baby daughter they were tragically denied.
An independent panel, known as the Patient Review Panel, recently rejected the couple's bid to choose the sex of their next child using IVF.
They have gone to VCAT in a bid to have that decision overturned.

Continue reading Couple aborts twin boys for girl | Herald Sun

Dutch journalist threatened with torture, death following letter condemning abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman. DEN BOSCH, Netherlands, November 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)

Pro-life journalist Mariska Orbán de Haas says that she has received hundreds of death threats and more than ten threats of torture following the publication of an open letter she wrote to a pro-abortion parliamentarian asking her to reconsider her position on the subject.

The letter, which was addressed to Representative Jeannine Hennis-Plasschaert and published in the Katholiek Nieuwsblad (Catholic News), was written in response to Hennis-Plassschaert's angry reaction after receiving a plastic fetal model from Catholic bishop Everard de Jong. The bishop had sent the models to Hennis-Plasschaert and all other members of the Dutch House of Representatives.  He also included a letter in which he asked the representatives to stop the killing of the unborn in the face of impending budget restrictions, pointing out that defunding "bloody abortion clinics" would save money and help preserve future generations who could care for the elderly.

After Hennis-Plasschaert called the letter from the bishop "disgusting," Orbán wrote to her publicly, pointing out that both she and Hennis-Plasschaert have experienced the suffering of miscarriages, and that the fetal model she received from Bishop De Jong would resemble their lost children at the time of their deaths.

Continue reading at Life Site News.

Abortion in Victoria

What Queenslanders Really Think About Abortion - The Catholic Leader

“What Queenslanders Really Think About Abortion" warns that an average swing of 12 per cent would be generated against members of State Parliament who voted in favour of decriminalising abortion.

The report has been sent in booklet form to all 89 members of the State Parliament aimed to convince those politicians in the middle the issue of abortion is much more complicated than is commonly presented.

Australian Family Association (AFA) spokesman Alan Baker told a media conference at the launch of the report at the Parliamentary Annexe last Monday, the independent opinion poll also showed there had been no swing in favour of decriminalising abortion since a recent Cairns trial related to abortion.

A Cairns jury on October 14 found a woman not guilty of procuring an abortion and a man not guilty of supplying drugs to procure an abortion.

Continue reading at The Catholic Leader
Full results of survey can be found here.
As usual the Courier Mail plays a role in pushing the Pro-Abortion agenda.

Leslie Cannold advocating for Dead Beat Dads?

When feminists start to support the "rights" of men you just know in reality it's all about women's "rights".

What the Pro-Choice Lobby don't want to admit

Have you any conception what abortion is all about?
The ad supposedly banned from Irish TV.

Abortion 'Doulas' and the Twisted Message of the Abortion Industry - Catholic Online

By Jennifer Hartline. 11th September 2010 - Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

The abortion industry wants to seem caring and compassionate. But they can't have it both ways.  If abortion truly is what the supporters of abortion insist it is, there is no need for a doula; there's no need for emotional support of any kind or any reason to extend compassion. This is the tiger giving you bandages for your wounds right before he mauls you, plus arranging for a "companion" to hold your hand and remind you how painless and great it's going to be.

Continue reading Abortion 'Doulas' and the Twisted Message of the Abortion Industry -  Catholic Online

Pro-Choice group convince Mexican officials to reduce punishment for infanticide :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

 Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 9, 2010 / 09:53 pm (CNA).

Feminist groups and leaders have pressured officials in the Mexican state of Guanajuato to drastically reduce the punishment for infanticide.

For weeks, feminist organizations such as Las Libres confused the public by claiming that six women in Guanajuato, who were in prison for killing their babies, were in fact in prison for abortion.

After being dismissed by local officials and U.N. delegates, the feminists changed their strategy to seeking a reduction in punishment for women who kill their children during the first hours following birth. Such a crime, punishable in the past by 35 years in prison, will now be punishable be only three to 10 years due to a controversial reform of the state's civil code.

Continue reading at Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Another Pro-Choice lobby group caught out lying.

Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 3, 2010 / 09:50 pm (CNA).

The governor of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, Juan Manuel Oliva Ramirez, expressed regret this week that some feminist groups lied in their desire to push for abortion. He also rejected the groups' claims that women in his region were imprisoned for having an abortion.

“From the onset we determined that no women were imprisoned for abortion, which was the accusation these feminists groups were making against the state government.” He added, “we have demonstrated that such cases do not exist in Guanajuato.”

Ramirez underscored that the state human rights office and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights both determined that “no women are in prison for abortion” and that accusations to the contrary were completely false.

Several days ago the U.N. dismissed claims by the feminist group “Las Libres” that “dozens of women” have become victims of Mexican law that protects life from the moment of conception and have been jailed for causing the deaths of their newborn children.

Mexican governor says feminists lied about women being imprisoned for abortion :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

UPDATE:
Pro-Choice group lobbies to reduce the punishment for women who murder their new born babies.

Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information

From Gloria.tv: Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information

Local Hero - Pro-life advocate facing jail term

Published: 25 July 2010 Catholic Leader
By: Paul Dobbyn

LONG-time Brisbane pro-life activist Graham Preston [who is not a Catholic], expects the police to knock on his door at any moment and take him to jail for unpaid fines relating to his sit-ins in front of abortion clinics.
The father of seven said he could be spending at least seven months in jail for unpaid fines totalling about $7500.
This is despite the remission of more than $4500 of fines by the previous Governor of Queensland after a successful court challenge against police actions moving him on from abortion clinics.
Mr Preston said, having spent more than a total of eight months in custody on four different occasions since he started the protest actions in 2002, "jail is no longer an unknown quantity for me".

Continue reading at the Catholic Leader. Pro-life advocate facing jail term.

Of course "Pro-Choicers" have their heroes too, but they tend to kill the unwanted.

Pro-Choice world view? - "If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too."

Blunt and chilling. You wouldn't expect much less, however, from a radical jihadist, or an avowed terrorist, or some other sort of violent extremist. But how about from a "pro-choice" feminist? Antonia Senior, who is the Personal Finance Editor of The Times (London), wrote a column, published June 30th, titled, "Yes, abortion is killing. But it’s the lesser evil." Give her credit for honesty, but then take away said credit for lack of logic and a chilling willingness to justify murder in the name of "a woman's right":
Continue reading Carl Olson at Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: "If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too."

Pro-Choice -- The Banality of Evil

From Andrew Bolt in 2007:

I thought killing baby Jessica with an injection into her beating heart was so wrong that good people would cry, “enough”.

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But being "Pro-Choice" means never having to take responsibility for your sexual activity, and never having to say no to abortion. No wonder the Planned Parenthood cheer squad seem so happy.

Rachel's Vineyard Australia - Healing the hurt of abortion.

Twisted Thinking on Abortion » Bill Muehlenberg’s CultureWatch

Those who seek to defend the indefensible have to resort to increasingly bizarre argumentation and twisted thinking to make their case. A prime example of this is the attempt to justify the killing of unborn babies. Some of the most inane and vacuous reasoning can be found coming from the pro-abortionists.

Continue reading at Twisted Thinking on Abortion » Bill Muehlenberg’s CultureWatch

Above image of the feet of an unborn at 7 weeks gestation courtesy of Priests for Life.

If the deliberate terminating of the life of the unborn wasn't such a serious issue I wouldn't feel guilt at having a laugh:


Of course for Catholics guilt can be a good thing. It's a reminder that something is not right. Everyone Against Abortion Please Raise Their Hand:



Rachel's Vineyard (Australia)- Repairing hearts broken by abortion.