"Intentional childlessness is avoiding responsibility" [View All]

[madfloridian]

Those are the words of the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary, Reverend Al Mohler. Those words have been turning themselves over in my mind today a lot...after witnessing some of the posts here lately. This is going to the extreme, and Al never used to be there. But he is now.

He is teaching many young ministers to lead churches. So where are we heading with all this? I have seen posts here today that see nothing at all wrong with forcing women to carry full term even at the risk of their health. The right wing has done a magnificent job of framing the issue, and our side has miserably failed.

From the vote in 2003 to put doctors in jail for up to two years...that bill was sanctified this week by the Supreme Court...to what? What is next? What part of a woman's life is going to be legislated next.

Al Mohler was never this extreme years ago. He evolved and is taking many young ministers along on his journey to control women. What next?

Mohler: Intentional childlessness is ‘avoiding responsibility’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The increase in the number of married couples in the United States who are deciding not to have children is a disturbing trend that could have a long-term negative impact on society, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

Sometimes referring to themselves as “non-breeders,” these couples are intentional and sometimes militant in their resolve not to have children, with some of them saying they are showing advanced maturity by recognizing that children do not fit their lifestyle.

Mohler, however, said the trend is nothing more than a disturbing commitment to perpetual adolescence. Raising children is part of becoming an adult, he said on the CNN broadcast’s Dec. 15 edition.

“Parenthood is a part of helping to create adults,” Mohler said. “We grow up by having children. Without that responsibility, we have a generation of perpetual adolescents just growing old.... This is really about avoiding responsibility and I find that tremendously sad.

Al is now getting into the area of birth control. He says it is wrong.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/113

"The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age--and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, and it threatens to set loose a firestorm.

..."Thus, in an ironic turn, American evangelicals are rethinking birth control even as a majority of the nation's Roman Catholics indicate a rejection of their Church's teaching. How should evangelicals think about the birth control question?

..."First, we must start with a rejection of the contraceptive mentality that sees pregnancy and children as impositions to be avoided rather than as gifts to be received, loved, and nurtured. This contraceptive mentality is an insidious attack upon God's glory in creation, and the Creator's gift of procreation to the married couple."

This is one of the largest congregations in the South. They are not going to give up on this issue of controlling women and controlling private lives.