Friday 10/12/07 ADULT CONTENT

Good day boys and girls. And how are we this fine day? Ready to learn, laugh and cry? Let the class begin. (Caution: adult content this week.)

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Here's a Catholic joke. Maybe everybody can "get it,'' but Catholics will see it sooner.

I was talking with this guy the other day. He wasn't buying my evangelical effort, but you know me, I kept pressing. Frustrated, he said, "Well, I definitely believe in a Supreme Being."

So I asked, "You mean, you're with the Knights of Columbus?"

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Once upon a time in an old, old car parked on a country road a long, long way away from here, I had become goal-oriented with the young lady who sat beside me.

Perhaps incidentally, the young woman was a Catholic. She said ''no'' to me, pointing out that we weren't married. Frustrated with the lack of success in my approach, I decided to play my trump card -- a seductive line I had just thought up.

I said, "Aw, come on. We'll be married in God's eyes."

Without missing a beat, my young friend looked me square in my own eyes and said, "Tom. God will be the first to know we're not married."

I swallowed my Adam's Apple, turned and started the old car, and drove back to town. Never after that did I try that particular brilliant persuasive seductive line.

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We see in scripture that the man is the leader of the woman, that the man has the responsibility of guiding the woman, both before and during the sacrament of holy matrimony.

Do you see where this is going?

Here's a non-scientific comparison to help me make my point. It's my guess that as many as 80 or 85 percent of people in this country qualify as tobacco users. Shocking figure? Read on.

It's also my guess that an even higher percentage of us will indulge in sexual intimacy before or outside of marriage. Just by listening to people through the years, I think almost everybody "does it" before the wedding day. It's probably 90 percent.

Like Adam, most of us men place at least part of the blame on the woman. "Well, so what if we were wrong, SHE let me !"

But no. Even especially in our sexually "enlightened" age, the blame can't be shared. When an illicit event of sexual intimacy takes place, the entire weighty responsibility lies with the man, the male.

Had I prevailed in my attempt to seduce my young high school friend, I would have been guilty of rape. Not just "statutory" rape, but plain old rape.

I've thought through this idea for many weeks. Anguish and remorse notwithstanding, I can't come to any other conclusion.

In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, "Human Life"), which reemphasized the Church’s constant teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence.

History has borne out the truth the Pope had written, "The Pill" is a medication that hints it will be "O.K." for a couple to have sex outside marriage. The "hint" is that pregnancy won't take place.

In Section 13, the Pope wrote, "It is in fact justly observed that a conjugal act imposed upon one's partner without regard for his or her condition and lawful desires is not a true act of love, and therefore denies an exigency of right moral order in the relationships between husband and wife.''

Sorry, but adultery is adultery regardless of pregnancy or non-pregnancy. The moral consequences will always be there. Sure, we can go to confession, and we can be forgiven for our transgression. But the consequences don't disappear. We are forever bound by our actions.

The woman of course has culpability. She could, and should, say no. But the woman is, by the nature of things, submissive to the man. The man is dominant; he bears the responsibility.

It's not just "the pill." So-called Women's Liberation has exacerbated this tragic human condition. The gay lesbian vegetarian liberal agenda seeks to degrade the sacrament of holy matrimony and to destroy heterosexuality.

"Equality." Sounds good, doesn't it? It has a good ring to it much the same as "freedom of choice.''

Certainly women should strive to be holy, and one way to do that is through celibacy. But the responsibility clearly lies with the male. It's high time for men to stand up to the Queer Agenda. Are we men or are we lackeys bowing to the power of the Agenda?

Here are websites wherein the Pope's entire prophetic writing can be read, and understood, in English:

www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp (commentary on Humanae Vitae)

www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P6HUMANA.HTM

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Quote of the week from Laura on the subject of abortion: "It's not about morality; it's about murder." Pretty sharp if I do say so herself.

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Word of the week: Kismet. A word from the Turkish "qismet," or the Arabic, "qismah,'' a portion, lot, fate. In English it means "Fate, destiny." A lot like last week's "serendipity."

Next week's word is a partial word. Quasi.

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