So you’re saying that sex isn’t healthy or pleasant? Well, crap.
I can’t comment on the Off the Record blog, see. So I’ll comment here.
Just because you train children to do something doesn’t mean that they actually do it. “Abstinence” to most teens means sticking to oral and anal sex. And nobody uses protection for oral sex.
I’d like to live in that ideal world where people don’t have lots of unprotected random sex, but none of us does.
I sure as hell didn’t go to high school there.
Taking charge of my what now?
This natural fertility stuff is all right, but I miss having a shorter, less brutal period and no three-day crying jags beforehand.
Don’t miss the migraines and expelling huge blood clots, though.
Cloudy
My mood has been murky today as I turn this article and its reaction in the Catholic blogosphere over in my mind. I am a political moderate but a registered Democrat as of this past spring, for the sake of voting in the 2008 presidential primary. Pro-life Democrats are rare now, and not particularly vocal.
I think sometimes that the faith isn’t particularly compatible with democracy, and the nature of our political system. I prefer when government stays out of my life, and I say that as a government employee.
The horse has, unfortunately, left the barn, and I don’t think that banning abortion wholesale would have much of an effect other than pushing women to illegal clinics. I oppose the expansion of available abortion and new government funding for it, but I think that the greater priority, given the current culture and political climate of America, is prayer and working to change the culture.
Yet some people tell me that so much as casting a vote for a Democrat is a grave sin.
