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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the ones who remain uncritical and accepting of this AHole's speech..

This guy said a lot of things and maybe you agree with most of it and don't believe it was offensive.  However, what he DID SAY EXACTLY was that:

Women have their place in the world and that is as a homemaker.  Someone who should NOT have a career/NOT make a career an option and only aspire to be a mother and wife.

For this alone, it's offensive.  There were women in this school who intend to use their degrees they just received to build a career.  How do you actually defend his speech in the context of this?  That it's a conservative Christian school is irrelevant because his speech was not just about Christianity but specifically demeaning all female students in the audience - he's suggesting they not only wasted their time but are garbage for even considering having a career.

I mean, it's not about his entire speech that matters.  No matter how you slice it and dice it about whether what he said was on pointe about Christianity, his words about women are an indisputable insult to the female audience and that in itself is outrageous.  That those who defend him don't even see this or care about this is what is wrong with our society.

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That is NOT exactly what he said.

Here is what he said, emphasis added:

“ How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? [u]Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, [/u][/b]but I would venture to guess that the [i][u]majority of you [/i][/u]are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”[b]

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“ I can tell you that [/b]my beautiful wife, Isabelle, [u]would be the first to say[b] [/u]that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
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As a woman who was once 21 and as the mother of a 21 y.o. female college student, I can guarantee you that the last thing the vast majority of college-educated women that age are thinking about is marriage and children. Who is he to speak for the "majority" of women?[/quote]

When he said the "majority of you" he was specifically reference the female graduates of a conservative Catholic college, not all female college graduates across the U.S. In this case, the "guess" he is venturing could well be correct. [/quote]

The majority of young women graduating from even a Catholic college are not eagerly awaiting the day they can have back-to-back babies for the remainder of their fertile years. It’s hard to understate just how fringe a view it is that even NFP is “disordered.” You realize that being subservient to your husband + no masturbation + no NFP = having 10+ pregnancies, if not more?

Exceedingly few 21 year old women want to be pregnant every 12-24 months until menopause. [/quote]

This is where his rhetoric is dangerous. To tell women that NFP is "not natural" is against Catholic teachings and leaves naive women thinking they must "submit" to their H whenever he wanted. What he should have done is quote Catholic actual teaching instead of the heresy....

which states...

Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife.

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there are well-grounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances,

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For if with the aid of reason and of free will they are to control their natural drives, there can be no doubt at all of the need for self-denial. Only then will the expression of love, essential to married life, conform to right order. This is especially clear in the practice of periodic continence. Self-discipline of this kind is a shining witness to the chastity of husband and wife and, far from being a hindrance to their love of one another, transforms it by giving it a more truly human character. (Translation: you are not an animal, you don't have to have sex to be intimate with your spouse, they do not have to have sex to be your wife)

And if this self-discipline does demand that they persevere in their purpose and efforts, it has at the same time the salutary effect of enabling husband and wife to develop to their personalities and to be enriched with spiritual blessings. For it brings to family life abundant fruits of tranquility and peace.

It helps in solving difficulties of other kinds. It fosters in husband and wife thoughtfulness and loving consideration for one another. It helps them to repel inordinate self-love, which is the opposite of charity. (kicker boy really needs to study this)

also ... their thoughts on female doctors and nurses ... Likewise we hold in the highest esteem those doctors and members of the nursing profession who, in the exercise of their calling, endeavor to fulfill the demands of their Christian "vocation" before any merely human interest.  (hmm any human interest, even being a mom)[/quote]

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