BREAKPOINT's John Stonestreet Commentary asks HARD QUESTIONS

See today's BREAKPOINT commentary where John Stonestreet asks "Hard Questions" about Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Birth Control.Mr. Stonestreet urges Christians to realize that "we have chosen to embrace [birth control] on the same terms of our hyper-sexualized culture. In light of the rush to completely divorce sex from marriage, hard thinking about contraception is long overdue. Let’s get started." He also says that historically, "marriage and procreation" were connected and that the modern "disconnection has become one of our culture’s default settings. How this came to be is the subject of a MUST-SEE FILM entitled “Birth Control: How Did We Get Here?” The film is the first in a two-part series, and nearly all of the people appearing in it are evangelical leaders."See the full commentary at http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/22333

Facts on Abortion: Why You Can’t Be Pro-Life and Pro-Contraception

One of the principal goals of the pro-life movement is the end of abortion, and most within the movement recognize the necessity and desirability of strategies that seek to outlaw abortion alongside those that seek to reduce the demand for it.

Many remain ambivalent, however, about the use of contraceptives, even going so far as to accept or support policies that use contraceptives as a means of reducing the number of abortions.

This is misguided.  Contraceptives are the cause of abortion.  In fact, if we did not have contraceptives in this country, we would not have anywhere near the abortion rate we do now.  I know this is counter-intuitive, but it is only so because Planned Parenthood and other population control entities have been successful in spreading misinformation for so long.

Read More at http://www.cfmpl.org/blog/2011/04/04/facts-on-abortion-why-you-cant-be-pro-life-and-pro-contraception/

9 Worst Birth Control Mistakes

CAUTION: This article is somewhat graphic:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/03/worst-birth-control-mistakes/?intcmp=features

COMMENTS: Note the worldly mindset of this article.

• It does not mention God as the Creator of all life.
• It assumes that pregnancies are planned by man.
• Unintended pregnancies are to be feared.
• It does not assume the marriage bond.
• It offers no cautions or health concerns related to various methods.
• It cares not whether some birth control methods causes abortions or have abortifacient properties.
• It assumes total lack of self-control – since some birth control methods take a few days to start working – to that extent that one needs “backup methods” until it takes effect.
• The concept of abstinence is never mentioned.
• Even “more natural methods” are not mentioned.
• One must have multiple methods available at all times to be ready just in case.
• The extent of planning and research and care and caution required to avoid pregnancy is somewhat astounding.
• Planned Parenthood, the U.S. top provider of abortion services, is advised as a good source for more information.
• Birth control is assumed as a good and necessary part of the lives of all people

Allan Carlson Interview Completed!

Allan Carlson, author of Godly Seed, stopped by our set in Rockford, IL today. We asked him some questions and got his perspective as a historian on how birth control has become a major issue for the Christian church toady. We appreciate his articulate and insightful words on the miriade of problems that have arisen due to the fundamental shift in the theology of the evangelical church in the mid-twentieth century. We are excited to share with you everything we are learning and discussing out here on the road. In the meantime, grab a copy of Godly Seed and start reading about it now!

A Relentless Desire for Mastery and Control

The progressive fascination with eugenics largely ended with World War II and the horrors wrought by National Socialism. But while the West has discarded the theory of the eugenics era, the practice urged by Fisher and others — the elimination or pre-emption, through careful reproductive planning, of the weaker members of the human species — has become a more realistic possibility than it ever was in the 1920s and ’30s. Read the rest of the story at http://www.nytimes.com