Saturday, November 4, 2006
Condoms & Safe Sex
I was shocked to walk into Temasek Polytechnic (Tampines Campus) yesterday, Friday Nov 03, to see free condoms being distributed in the concourse and facilitators encouraging the use of the contraceptive device. What message is the Administration trying to get across? I am disgusted to know that the Administration is encouraging an active (pre-marital) sexual livestyle among students instead of abstinece. How low has our society's moral value declined?
Even if we were to discuss this from a non-religious viewpoint, sexual intercourse threatens the loss of integrity. It is intergrity that we need to focus on. We must never, ever, compromise our integrity. Sexual intercourse is a possibly fertile human act between one man and one woman, married to each other. To tamper with the act, using it in ways other than what is truly human nature, is to damage and eventually to destroy our integrity, both in mind and body.
No responsible doctor, priest or educator can ever confuse his patient, penitent or pupil that sex with a condom is a way he can eat his cake and have it. To so offer an excuse for illicit sex is to create the rationale and the demand for it. Psychologists would agree with me that behavioural drives are subliminal and subconscious. It produces effects that may seem intuitively contradictory.
The comdom is guilty for the development of the HIV pandemic in 1981 and the promiscuity it facilitated in the 1960's. If anything, the condom is the cause of the pandemic, not its cure, trapping students in a destructive mindset created and maintained by the Administration.
The sexually transmitted Herpes Simplex Virus is three times larger than HIV yet managed to create an epidemic in the USA in the condom era.
Turning to the condom for protection is a fool’s errand.
Evil is its own nemesis.
- institutionalising contraception,
- institutionalising population destruction,
- threatening the sanctity of life,
- threatening the lives and welfare of unborn babies,
- (eventually) nurturing the acceptability of euthanasia.
These elements of the Culture of Death, described by Pope John Paul II in 1995, are an insight into how the world has already deteriorated and how it continues to deteriorate.
We need to detach ourselves from this evil process!
Although it has been 11 years since the passing of Abp. M. Lefebvre, his mission and words are still very much alive in many of the faithful. Below is an extract of a sermon on his Sacerdotal Jubilee (23 September 1979) in Paris:
...... Consecrate yourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary...... do not listen to these abominable slogans...... in this degenerate urban atmosphere in which we are living...... And if it is necessary, yes, you yourselves will teach your children at home. If the schools corrupt your children, what are you going to do? Rather that your children be poor, rather that they be removed from this apparent science that the world possesses, but that they be good children, Catholic children who love to pray and who love to work, children who love creation which the good God has made.
Let us ask Our Lady who was conceived without sin to pray for us sinners who have recourse to her: for the gift of PURITY.
God bless you!
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo
Official teaching of the Catholic Church on Contraceptives:
CCC Par. 2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil: Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.
CCC Par. 2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).
Labels: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Contraceptives
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