Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Woody Herman and his big band performing Four Brothers (1963, 3:19).
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In line with the whiners piece, looks like an annoying little country off the coast of New Zealand is actually going all the way and banning all the smokes everywhere.
I got it from this guy:
http://ammianus.blogspot.com/2008/07/niue-to-ban-all-smoking_14.html
who links to an article in the Australian Press.
One of the members of the Canadian group” Barenaked Ladies” has been arrested at a house in New York for possesion of cocaine in the company of two young women. Rumour has it that at the time of the arrest the song “If I had a million dollars” was being played. No reports yet on what the women were wearing or if Yoko Ono was present.
Ted,
So what? Pub owners in Australia are pissed that illegal “pubs” are being set up all over Australia because they decided to go smoke free. They don’t like that people have chosen to explore alternatives. Go figure.
Anyone who thinks positively of “Humanae Vitae” should read Ayn Rand’s demolition of it.
Humanae Vitae warned that women would be used–abused?–if the birth control pill came into widespread use.
Was the Vatican right?
You betcha.
Along with the widespread use of the pill has come an epidemic of STDs and so-called “unwanted pregnancies”/abortions in young women who are sexually active–and there are a whole lot more sexually active young women now than there were back in the ’60s when most young women were pretty careful about who they’d have sex with.
Could we say, today, that a lot of young women are being taken advantage of? Is it uncommon for young women to have sex with a guy on their first or second date–like, it’s expected? How come almost 40% of sexually active young women end up with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the number-one cause of cervical cancer?
How come we have an epidemic of breast cancer? Could it have anything to do with a surfeit of estrogen in women’s systems, a known trigger for cancer, or the over 100,000 abortions a year? (It’s scientically proven that an abortion significantly increases a woman’s chance of getting breast cancer: again, connected to a surfeit of estrogen.)
The Vatican/Humanae Vitae was prescient in its warnings about the negative effects on men and women, society in general, when we divorce sexuality from procreation.
What we have in the Brave New World of 2008 is women of all ages, on a large scale, being seen merely as sex objects–not just by men but in their own eyes as well. Sex is often seen as just another pastime/extra curricular activity, and, hey, if a girl gets pregnant, she can have an abortion or go on welfare, never mind having to live with the nasty consequences of contracting an STD which, if it’s viral, she’ll have for life because there’s no cure for a viral STD.
People can love to hate the Catholic Church all they want. But ask yourself: What message do you want your own daughters to get?
The libertarian view? Go ahead. Have as much sex as you want. Take the pill so you don’t get pregnant and just use a condom. If you do get pregnant, you can have an abortion. And, if you get an STD, well, too bad.
The Vatican’s view? Be very careful to respect yourself and your partner, who should be mature enough and prepared to commit themselves to you in a life-long relationship in marriage.
Which approach is going to spare your daughter heartache and anguish? Think about it. BTW, did Ayn Rand have children?