Rush Limbaugh found himself in a major brouhaha recently over remarks he made about Sandra Fluke, a 30 year old third year law student at Georgetown University, and her demands that insurance companies pay for her birth control medicines. Actually, her comments were that Georgetown University should be forced, by the federal government, to pay for her birth control.
Georgetown University is a Catholic University and contraception is against the Catholic Church’s belief system. Georgetown University is only exercising their 1st amendment right to practice their religion
without interference from the government. The Catholic Church’s teachings on birth control are spelled out in excellent form in Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Human Life), which condemned all form of unnatural or artificial birth control as wrong
The 1st Amendment reads as such: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…” That seems pretty clear to me. But then I consider myself a reasonable person. And, unlike Ms. Fluke, I am not an activist.ersity is a Catholic University and contraception is against the Catholic Church’s belief system. Georgetown University is only exercising their 1st amend
ment right to practice their religion without interference from the government. The Catholic Church’s teachings on birth control are spelled out in excellent form in Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Human Life), which condemned all form of unnatural or artificial birth control as wrong.
A considerable amount of information came out recently about Ms. Fluke that shows her entire issue in a clearer light. Ms. Fluke is a liberal, left wing activist who enrolled at Georgetown University specifically so she could springboard herself into the public eye as a victim of the 223 year old Jesuit Institution’s “medieval infringement on her rights as a human being.” (The Daily Caller article titled “Sandra Fluke’s Choices”) Personally, I don't consider Ms. Fluke a victim at all. Her only victim hood is that her parents never raised her to believe in taking personal responsibility for her actions.
Another issue at stake is how hilarious the entire matter is in the first place. Nobody at Georgetown is denying Ms. Fluke the opportunity to purchase contraceptives or any birth control measure of her choosing. Since 1965,
contraception has been legal in the United States, after the Supreme Ms. Fluke spoke to a Congressional hearing about how Georgetown was denying her civil rights by not paying for her contraception devices, even though Target sells birth control pills for $9.00 for a month’s supply, roughly $297 for the 33 months she would be enrolled at Georgetown Law School. This is something that the Mainstream media either refused to cover or is simply too lazy to do a Google search about. The fact that Ms. Fluke is a left-leaning liberal activist, becoming one of the mainstream media’s poster children for abortion and distortion of the Constitution, and is setting her sights on the Catholic Church, the arch-nemesis of the liberal left, makes this choice all too easy for the mainstream media to immediately paint Ms. Fluke as the victim here. She stated that the cost of her birth control was going to be around $3000 for her time at Georgetown and that Georgetown was obligated to pick up the tab.
Rush Limbaugh picked up on this absurdity of how she connected the dots from her being able to have sex (without consequences) to Georgetown University being responsible for the cost. If Geo
rgetown was responsible for the cost of Ms. Fluke’s birth control, the logical conclusion is that Georgetown would be shouldering the responsibility for Ms. Fluke’s sexual activity. Ms Fluke is part of a growing generation of spoiled ‘children’ that do not want to take responsibility for their actions. She wants to have sex without the consequences of that lifestyle. A good question that should be asked is “Is there anything that Rush Limbaugh said that is not true?”
Let me start by saying that first of all, there are NO ACTIONS THAT DO NOT HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Even Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Now I do not know what the opposite and equal reaction to having sex might be, but there definitely is a reaction. They are called children. Ms. Fluke demanding that Georgetown University take responsibility for her irresponsibility is a ludicrous as someone stepping off a multi-story building and demanding that someone else take responsibility for their falling down. Even the president of the United States, no matter how powerful he thinks he is, cannot repeal the law of gravity
But the government stepping in and stating they were going to force Catholic institutions to cover birth control via fiat has all the fingerprints of a tyranny in the making. But then Pope Paul saw this one coming. In Humanae Vitae, he predicted four separate societal disasters awaiting us if we legalized contraception.
Contraception, at its core, is the inhibiting the God-given truth about the purpose of sex in the first place. Sexual activity, within the boundaries of marriage, provides three specific purposes. 1) Reproduction and childbirth; 2) Protection of the family unit through a closer union, intimacy and mutual respect between husband and wife; and 3) Recreation, the physical enjoyment of each other through the intense physical pleasure a married couple can share through the sexual experience. Sexual activity was never intended to be an activity that was self-centered.
1. There would be a loosening of morality and the inevitable marital infidelity that goes along with it. The rise in divorce rates, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, abortions, and venereal diseases in the past twenty-five years is undeniable. The amount of marriages in particular is nothing less than shocking. Some countries in Western Europe have a marriage rate so low as to think that a wedding is a sort of an anomaly in that culture.
2. There is a general loss of respect for women. Paul argued that the man would ‘lose respect for the woman’ and consider her simply an instrument to satisfy his own physical desires. The rise of pornography has resulted with a major theme in pornographic films being the sexual abuse of women, even to the point of a women ‘enjoying’ being raped. Someone said back around 1997 that there are 1000 new websites put out on the internet every single day and somewhere in the area of half of those are pornographic websites. And that was almost 15 years ago. This is billion dollar a year industry (that’s billion with a ‘B’) that targets teenage young men in the same manner as illegal drugs.
3. The abuse of power. Pope Paul said that acceptance of contraception would be a “dangerous weapon …in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral” urgencies. Rahm Emmanuel, the former Chief of Staff to Barak Obama once said something similar to “We can’t allow an emergency go to waste.” China’s overpopulation policy is an extreme case in point. But there are people in this country who think we need to lower the population to “save the planet”. Ted Turner believes that 2/3 of the population has to go for our world to survive. I wonder if he realizes that at his age, he’s a prime candidate to be first in line for ‘culling the herd’. The real problem, though, is that most countries are not suffering from overpopulation but under population growth.
4. Unlimited dominion. Man will eventually start to think he has unlimited dominion over his own body. This is the old “I’m the master of my destiny, captain of my fate” song and dance. This, of course, completely takes God right out of the equation. Right along with that frame of thought comes sterilization (which is now the most widely used form of contraception), growing children specifically for the purpose of harvesting their organs for our own use when our own organs fail, and then euthanasia when a person of lesser financial means is of no further purpose to meet our own needs. If there is one truth that is eternal, other than there is a God in heaven, it is that He will not be mocked.
Ms. Fluke seems like a reasonably intelligent woman, although her moral compass has obviously been skewed. In order for her to even get into Georgetown Law School, she has to have some amount of reason and an ability to think logically. Unfortunately, Georgetown does not give tests that determine a person’s ability to be used as a dupe for the ‘Death Culture’, which Ms. Fluke obviously has fallen into. She’s not alone in this arena. Brighter, more culturally savvy people than she have fallen for this sham of logic that ‘if it feels good, do it’. The main problem is that if, and when, she realizes her stupidity, the damage will already be done and many people will be hurt by this cultural genocide.
I’m afraid that she may find herself facing off against Someone who is less likely to be cowed into apologizing to her and His comments will cause a whole lot more trouble than just a few days embarrassment.
One can only pray for someone like this, hoping that God will be merciful to her and the thousands that are following in her footsteps.
The following web pages were very helpful in writing this blog.
http://www.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/264/popepaul.htm
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/03/sandra-flukes-choices/
Read other blog postings by this author at http://insearchofintelligentlife.wordpress.com or http://insearchofintelligentlife.com.
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