Here I go again, but I thought you would like to know.

The so called "health care legislation" passed in 2010 has directed the Obama administration to create a list of preventive services for women that all new health care plans must cover without deductibles or co-payments. You guessed it. If this goes through health insurance plans could soon be required to offer female patients free coverage for prescription birth control along with a “the full range” of federally approved contraceptives, devices, and sterilization procedures. All free for the asking.

Why is this bad? Well for one thing this legislation makes pregnancy and children (and family life) a disease and a woman's fertility is a pathological condition to be suppressed by any means technically possible. Second, it shows no respect for human life and human dignity. Life is not sacred. Third, the use of contraceptives and any such devices is immoral. By contraception I mean the intentional use of a drug, chemical, device or procedure that will prevent pregnancy by acting directly and deliberately against the fertility cycle. Contraception denies God's gift of life and the goodness of fertility and family life. It's a deep lie against personal dignity and marriage. It turns the body into a "temple of a lie" and denies that God wants our body to be a Temple of the Holy Spirit. Contraception violates our human nature in the deepest way possible. Contracepting is like enjoying a delicious meal and then vomiting it up so that you don't gain weight, and yet you can fully satisfy the appetite and cravings (binge-purge gluttony). Contraception is sexual gluttony.

Fouth, this legislation will encourage contraception which will encourage the sinful behavior of cohabitation, the sins of adultery, fornication, pronographical behavior, and more. This legislation encourages profound sins and creates the illusion of absolving people of the need to behave in a moral and Godly way. It takes away "the chance of embarrassing consequences."

I know that what I have said here will "cut across the grain" for some folks. But any Christian who knows his or her faith and knows Christian history should never be offended.

The present day dismantling of marriage and family life is clearly the outgrowth of a culture increasingly defined by serial monogamy, cohabitation, children born and raised out of wedlock, divorce-ready prenuptial agreements, pornography, abortion and contraception. A truthful analysis always shows that the root of the problem, more than anything else, is contraception. A contraceptive culture is a divorce culture, a cohabitation culture, an adulterous culture, a pornography culture, a same-sex “marriage” culture, a narcissistic and pleasure-seeking culture, because all these "cultures" or "life-styles" refute and deny a coherent biblical and historic understanding of marriage, family life, children, human dignity, or even what sex is, or who God is.

It may suprise some to learn that up to 1930 both Protestants and Catholics alike clearly taught that contraception, abortion and all forms of sexual promiscuity were morally evil. Since apostolic times the Church has articulated the moral evil of all of this, as did Judaism. Are we any better off now that people's minds have changed? Study after study provides a clear demonstrable link between the contraceptive mentality promoted since the 1930’s and the abortion and death industry mentality of the present day.

But simply denying God and acting as one wishes is never a solution. In fact it's a very dangerous place to be in. This position brings death to our soul. Let us pray for our legislators that they will not permit this horrendous provision into the health care of this country. It will never be caring for people's health... in fact it will never be caring at all.