Heh. Reminds one of the women reporter who said she'd give Bill Clinton a blow job to keep abortion legal.
and this might not be a coincidence.
It's all about abortion you know. Without contraception/abortion, women can't be free to work to make big business more profitable. And having women take off time to have a baby (or ask for days off to care for a sick kid) cuts profits.
but at what price?
book review of the antiMary:
In the late ’60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships—that of mother and child—was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives. From the spoiling of this relationship followed the decay of the entire family, and almost overnight, our once pro-life culture became pro-lifestyle, embracing everything that felt good. Sixty million abortions later, women aren’t showing signs of health, happiness, and fulfillment. Increased numbers of divorce, depression, anxiety, sexually transmitted disease, and drug abuse all point to the reality that women aren’t happier, just more medicated.more here: MP3
it comes down to the anthropology of sex and the anthropology of family ties:
CSLewis quote:
In his treatise "Priestesses in the Church," C. S. Lewis observed, "The innovators are really implying that sex is something superficial, irrelevant to the spiritual life. To say that men and women are equally eligible for a certain profession is to say that for the purposes of that profession their sex is irrelevant.
We are, within that context, treating both as neuters. As the State grows more like a hive or an ant-hill it needs an increasing number of workers who can be treated as neuters. (italics mine).
This may be inevitable for our secular life. But in our Christian life we must return to reality."alas, we have a pope more worried about the "rainforest" than in families, so he is busy laying the groundwork for his plans for women priests, divorce, contraception and gay marriage because being PC means never having to say you are sorry.
Never mind the Jungian, anthropological and biological reality that men and women are different.
My mother always said the reason that only men became priest was because God wanted to make it up to them that they couldn't have babies, and in this I think she has a point.
It comes down to evolutionary biology built into the genes. And I say that as a woman who became a doctor BEFORE "women's lib". As Edith Stein said, women can do the same job as a man, but that doesn't make them men, because they bring their femininity into their work. And ironically this is confirmed by the many scientific studies that show women doctors practice medicine differently than men.
There is probably a Jordan Peterson lecture on this concept of sexuality and family from Freudian, Jungian and Darwinian points of view, (lobsters anyone?) so it's not just the wicked churches who think this.
So the latest kerfuffle is not about Trumpie boy at all.
It all comes down to the old ethical question (a variation of Plato's Ring of Gyges) that we used to be asked when I was in the university 50 years ago:
If you could be rich just by killing one unknown and unimportant person in some poor unimportant country, and no one would know, would you do it?
Ah, but what if that unimportant person is your own child?
"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other."~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta ~
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