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You are 100%. The contraception mentality has led to our Culture of Death, the acceptance of abortion, and the high divorce rate.

More than anything, I get angry at Catholics who use contraception in direct violation of the Catechism, or who vote pro-choice, or who are "personally pro-life but ...".

The fact is that contraception is evil because it puts a barrier between the giving relationship of husband and wife. It takes life out of the equation, and makes sex a selfish act. Natural Family Planning is the only acceptable form of birth control. There are legitimate reasons to want to space children, and NFP lets couples to it together, while always accepting that God could have different plans and there may be an "unplanned" pregnancy, but never unwanted.

My husband and I have practiced NFP since we married, and I've never regreted it.

I hope that more Protestant couples come to the realization that the contraception mentality is leading them down the path of moral decay, and that they will join the Catholic Church in condemning contraception as an moral evil.

There's a mess of them that do. They just don't get much press in the papers, unless the papers can find something evil to say -- like the DC papers said about that Catholic father who lost a child.

I hope that more Protestant couples come to the realization that the contraception mentality is leading them down the path of moral decay, and that they will join the Catholic Church in condemning contraception as an moral evil.

Protestant Amen!

Food for thought... In Russia, the Baptists and Pentecostals have long considered contraception to be wrong. And so, in Russia, with one of the lowest birthrates in the world (due to abortion, contraception, etc), and a skyrocketing AIDS rate, one subset of the population is having 8-10 kids per couple -- the Bible believers. Do the projections -- in a few generations, virtually every Russian will have at least one Bible-believing grandparent, if they're not actual believers themselves. Now THAT is CULTURAL IMPACT!!!

Question: Will American Christians seize the opportunity? Or will we contracept ourselves into oblivion, and leave the land empty for a more deserving nation to move in? If we don't want it, someone else will be happy to have it.

While I don't necessarily agree with your statement about contraception leading individual couples to moral decay, I do applaud your use of NFP. My wife and I have three beautiful children, but do not intend to have any more naturally. Only our second child was actually planned...the other two were surprises. During the third pregnancy we decided that I would get a vasectomy, which I did shortly before the birth of our third child. I have since questioned whether it was the right course of action. I hadn't really heard much about alternative and more Biblical means of family planning until after the operation.

I do know people who've had vasectomies and later in life ended up parents anew anyway, so I'm confident at this point that if I'm meant to father another child it will happen. When we first discussed this we had decided that if we wished to have any more children from that point on, we would adopt. We have a lot to offer to a child who needs two loving Christian parents.

I've heard a lot of debate over contraception recently, and I'm still undecided on what the Biblical position truly is. In any case, I have great admiration for those who can and do have many children.