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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most Catholics do think birth control is okay. It's just that the more radical Catholics get more air time. There are many Catholic organizations that are about "social justice". What news organization wants to air good thing Catholics are doings, none.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/154799/americans-including-catholics-say-birth-control-morally.aspx[/quote]

You mean those radical Catholics like Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Rigali, the American Conference of Bishops and other very senior members of the church hierarchy? It's kinda tough to call the whole leadership structure of your organization "radical."

Complaining that they get air time for their views over grass-roots Catholic organizations who might support the use of birth control is like complaining about the air time to the Republican leadership when they talk about gay marriage vs. highlighting the good the Log Cabin Republicans do for gay rights.

Even though a lot of Republicans might be ok with gay marriage, the leadership of the Republican party - ie the people who supposedly set the Republican agenda and are responsible for speaking for the organization - are very anti-gay rights, and the media covers their position accordingly.

In the same vein, just because a lot of lay Catholics use birth control (which the Church says is a sin) and doesn't see anything wrong with it, the leadership of the Church is outspoken about their objection to birth control and has, in the past, disciplined members of the clergy and threatened the laity for expressing opinions that differ from Catholic doctrine. Remember in 2004 when Cardinal Burke said that Catholic politicians who support abortion [b]must not[/b] receive Holy Communion?

So there you have someone who was a former archbishop of the Church and who, at the time, was the chief judge for ecclesiastical matters for the Church, saying politicians who express views contrary to the Church should not receive communion. That gets news. The fact that you and your spouse use birth control, not so much.

When you say, "I'm a Republican," people make assumptions about your beliefs because you've aligned yourself with the positions taken by that group.

When you say, "I'm a Catholic," people do the same thing.

If you don't like people making those assumptions about you, you have four options:

- suffer (and, if it makes you feel better, whine anonymously on DCUM how unfair it is that you get tarred with that brush)
 - spend a lot of your time saying, "I'm Catholic but here's where I disagree with the Church..." and see what that does for you with your other Catholic friends (not to mention your priest)
 - change the Church's position on the things you don't like (good luck with that)
 - become a member of a different religious group

The choice is yours.

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