[Filipinism Homepage] A Catechism on Family and Life for the 2010 elections

[josephdream]

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Click to read the full CBCP document here

It may seem odd for the Catholic Church to issue a document incorporating Family and Life and choosing the next set of leaders after the May 2010 elections. How are they related in the first place?

The fact is that condom and pill advocates and producers are pushing to make their products legal and seemingly necessary by influencing legislators and even government to issue laws that would make pro-life advocates look like criminals.

The Department of Health already succeeded in distributing free condoms last Valentines day claiming that their use would prevent the spread of HIV. But according to Dr. Angie Aguirre, a bioethician and a consultant of the CBCP Commission on Family and Life, such move would only propagate promiscuity among young people and encourage extramarital relations, not to mention the percentage of condom's failure rate to curb HIV infections.

Regarding contraceptives like IUD and pills, these are clearly abortificiants rather than contraceptives. These products would consequently pave the way for the legalization of abortion, a necessary backup for the failure of these products do do what they are supposed to do in the first place.

From the point of view of marketing, producers would aggressively influence government and legislature for its very survival by providing a barrage of created needs just to justify business existence, from curbing population to health reasons. But the main motivation is to find their way into the market without any hindrance or feelings of guilt whatsoever.

Such aggression hurts the moral fiber of every person and family and the next generation. Once approved, Catholic practitioners and other persons who in their conscience oppose to the use of such products would now being considered criminals. Why should we be punished because of our moral convictions? And would a third child suffer being a liability simply because he/she is unwanted? Who are we to give those judgments?

RH bill and the 2010 elections

It is imperative then to choose our next leaders based on their moral convictions to promote the family, life, decency, and morals instead of simply curbing population which by now is considered a myth because this world is rapidly aging because of the contraceptive mentality.

The document states that "it would not be permissible to vote for candidates who support anti-family policies, including reproductive health which negatively connotes the promotion of abortifacients and inflict penalties for parents who do not allow their adolescent children to engage in sexual acts, etc. or any other moral evil such as abortion, divorce, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Otherwise one become an accomplice to the moral evil in question."

It would be good to realize that it is important to stress that future leaders should be chosen not only on the basis of eradicating poverty by promising homes and money; but rather, on the intense desire to strengthen morality especially in the areas of family, life, and honest governance. Then we won't have to think about using these undesirable contraceptives in the first place.

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Posted By josephdream to Filipinism Homepage at 3/11/2010 06:23:00 PM