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Posted on 12/20/2015 4:51:09 PM PST by ReformationFan
December 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the most influential evangelical Christian leaders in the United States says the sexual revolution began with the widespread availability of birth control.
Dr. Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, made the remarks Saturday on David Wheaton's "The Christian Worldview" radio show.
“We are clearly at a very important turning point, but you have to go back to the early twentieth century when sexual revolutionaries largely funded an effort to separate sex and procreation, and that was birth control," Dr. Mohler said.
"Most Christians seem to think today that birth control was just something that came along as something of a scientific or medical development," Mohler said. "They fail to see that it was driven by moral revolutionaries who knew that you couldn’t have a moral revolution, you especially couldn’t have a sexual revolution, unless you could separate sex and babies.â€
In recent years, evangelical Christians and observers in general have taught the harms inflicted by birth control - from the potential abortifacient properties of some forms of contraception to the way it has unleashed promiscuity and inhibited true intimacy. Author Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told LifeSiteNews that when she wrote her 2012 book on contemporary sexual mores and their consequences, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, "I was just blown away by" the accuracy of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae. She said the subsequent rise of commitment-free sex destroyed marriages, spread diseases, and led to the nation's skyrocketing rate of illegitimate births.
Dr. Mohler, who released the new book We Cannot be Silent in October, said the second major development that undermined the family was the no-fault divorce "revolution."
In the six year period between 1977 and 1983, 39 states passed laws allowing either party to end a marriage for any reason, or no reason.
"That was massive," he said. "Evangelical Christians just didn't recognize it for what it was."
"You can't have anything like same-sex 'marriage' until you redefine marriage, eliminating it as a lifelong covenant," he said.
Degrading marriage led to a "massive spike in cohabitation among heterosexuals."
“One kind of sexual misbehavior leads to the rationalization of another," he said. "Thus, we couldn’t have the Obergefell decision that came this June, we couldn’t have the legalization of same-sex 'marriage,' if there hadn’t been a lot of sexual revolution before we got there.â€
Dr. Mohler went on to answer a question he is frequently asked: Whether faithful Christians should attend the same-sex "wedding" ceremony of a friend or relative.
"Absolutely not, because to participate in a same-sex 'wedding' in any way is uniquely to give an affirmation of it," he said.
While he encouraged faithful Christians to "establish a relationship" with homosexuals in order "to share the Gospel," he said that "going to a [same-sex] 'wedding' is the one thing we can’t do.â€
Sure.
And the Russians got to the moon first, too.
Until the 1920s or 30s, all Christian denominations believed that contraception was evil. Then the Episcopal church voted to allow contraception and the floodgate opened.
I did my master’s thesis on this point 20 years ago. The SCOTUS supported the birth control lobby at every turn, from 1964 onward. The irony is that the proliferation of artificial contraception has done nothing to stop the rate of unwanted pregnancy; all it has done is foster the illusion that society will “make every child a wanted child.” Before, even the unwanted pregnancies often resulted in the formation of a family with a father and a mother in the home. Now, unwanted pregnancies most often result either in abortion or an impoverished single-parent upbringing and accompanying pathologies. Progress?
And now the LGBT crowd wants control of sex education in the public schools.
The stated goal is to discard what they call “binary” or “heteronormative” distinctions. They demand that any notion that there are two sexes, male and female, must be thrown out.
Building on that, they demand sex education classes must disallow any focus on the connection between the sex act and procreation, and focus instead on the “varieties of sexual expression.”
Back in the olden days, when I was in school, boys and girls were separated to minimize embarrassment during sex ed.
Then we watched a film showing a sperm swimming into an ovum, and the cells dividing and multiplying and becoming a tiny fetus. Then we watched the baby develop thru the stages of gestation, and then the child being born. We saw everything, as it is in life.
We even had a plastic model of a pregnant lady. You could swing the front of her belly open and see the plastic baby inside.
The LGBT agenda demands this information must be withheld, replaced by lessons on oral and anal, B&D and S&M.
In. The. Public. Schools.
Planned Parenthood fights tooth and nail to prevent women from viewing sonograms, because when they do, they choose life.
Lambeth Conference. First the Anglicans caved then the rest followed.
Then I have some protestant at a Crisis Pregnancy Center here in Charleston, tearing my head off because I refuse to donate pregnancy books that talk about contraception. I’m told that I want “women to just push out babies every 9 months that they can’t afford” Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep. Yet she she’s “pro life”.
God will provide for big families.
It's good that Protestant theologians are starting to come around.
It’s a war on Nature and Nature’s God.
I didn’t think most would get it.
Kind of like the old chicken/egg conundrum - which came first, the tools that make it easier for society to go downhill or did society go downhill and drive the desire for the tools.
It's all in His Plan for us - He has spoken and just as His promise of Christ the Savior came true, His edict that we will slide into the depths of the sewers before He comes back to set things right will ensue.
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Growing up, the two churches where families of more than two children were common were the LCMS and the Catholics.
As an adult, I have often wondered why the LCMS was that way.
The author is right. Once sex becomes just about fun, marriage doesn’t seem that strong of a bond.
The people of Sodom disagree.
I’m not Catholic, as you may know, but I agree with you. Birth control is sinful, when it is artificial.
So did some of us evangelicals.
Unfortunately for Christians of any kind, too many of them either do not know, or fail to apply in their lives, the commands of God.
I know that I have failed on many occasions to keep
God’s word in my own life, but at least I don’t try to petend it wasn’t wrong.
Actually, it started with all those GIs returning home from WW2 having been exposed to European morays.
Yeah, damn all those foreign eels...
Hey! Moray is in Scotland, but I think there’s only one.
...'igh 'eels too!
The Soviets crashed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. America put men on the moon. So...Catholic teaching on BC is unmanned? I assume you’re dissing NFP somehow, but either way whatever analogy you’re trying to draw is so convoluted, it’s no surprise that “most don’t get it.”
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