02-09-2012, 07:34 PM
Grace62 wrote:
It's about men controlling women. The followers aren't following, so they'll try and get the government to force them to.
This is the church that still doesn't allow women to lead, after all.
If you are a woman and you accept church teaching that it's a sin to have sex with someone unless you are wedded to them (by the church,) or to try and prevent yourself from becoming pregnant other than by not having sex, then your life is not your own.
I won't make any pretense that the consequences fall equally on the sexes, but it's about Churchmen controlling everyone, male and female alike. This Church would object strenuously to birth control measures administered to men as well. Controlling sex means controlling life - both procreatively and recreatively - and that means insinuating tentacles of manipulation into every level of social reality. It affects women more negatively than men, but the aim is broader than just women.