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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Catholic, but I'm a firm believer in birth control.  I actually support population control for environmental reasons. I support birth control to decrease poverty.  I wish that more women will utilize birth control instead of bringing  children into the world that they can't afford to take care of.    I also believe in sterilizing criminals, those who are mentally insane, and parents who abuse their children.

I used to be a radical pro-lifer.  However, after spending 20 plus years working in social services and the criminal justice system I realized that birth control and abortion are absolute necessaries in order to decrease some of the social ills that we have in society.   Our government can't educate, feed, provide housing, and other resources to every poor child that is born in America.  Also, if a female gets raped, then she shouldn't be forced to have the rapist's  baby.   We have  12 year olds here in DC pushing strollers.  Parents are dropping the ball with teaching their children about safe sex.  Now the church wants to legislate laws inside of my uterus.  This crap has got to stop!    Women need to have complete control and authority over their own bodies.   Not everyone wants a child and not everyone in our society deserves a child either.  Some people should never bring a child into the world period!

The church has no place or no right inside of a women's uterus!  [/quote]

Well said.[b] So how do you reconcile that with your membership in (and implicit support of) the Catholic Church[/b]?[/quote]

I'm a member by default.  I was born and raised into the faith.  I attended Catholic Schools.   Since 90% of my relatives are Roman Catholic, I would literally have to disowned them in order to break away from Catholicism.  I love my family and I'm willing to place my personal beliefs aside in order to have them in my life.  Every baptism, wedding, funeral, or family social event revolves around the church.   My parish is my childhood church and it is where I got married.  I'm not a ride or die Catholic.  I take the good and throw out the bad. However, since I'm involved in social services and community outreach projects I associate with the Archdiocese of Washington on those matters.  Don't get me wrong as much as I disagree with some of the teachings of Catholicism,  there are things that I really do like about the Roman Catholic faith.  Being of service to others, helping impoverished families, helping inner-city children obtain scholarships to attend Catholic Schools, the strong sense of community, and etc. are the reasons why I stick around.   My relationship with the Roman Catholic Church is a love hate relationship.  It's like having a dysfunctional, mentally challenged relative, but you still love them despite their shortcomings.

I will admit that as I have matured over the years, the Episcopal  and Unitarian  Universalist Churches really appeal to me. [/quote]

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