On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:05:22 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:12:43 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:20:50 -0400, JimH wrote:


With all due respect John, you are wrong. The Catholic Church never
condoned oral sex.

The sole purpose of sex according to the Church is procreation, with
birth
control during a woman's period.

I'm not sure that is totally accurate. Humanae Vitae requires that
sexual
intercourse be open to life, precluding contraception, but I don't
believe
it requires all sexual intercourse to be for procreation. It's about
giving one's all to a marriage, not giving everything but one's
fertility.
It is my understanding, oral stimulation, as foreplay, is perfectly
acceptable in a marriage.



You are perhaps correct. And I should have said that abstention from sex
prior to a woman's period is the Church's idea of birth control.


The Church condones the 'rhythm method' as an acceptable method of birth
control.

Do you know what they call Catholics who practice the rhythm method?
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For sure! The Church has hoped that science would develop better ways to
determine when a woman was infertile so the rhythm method would be more
successful. So far, I don't think much has been done in that regard.

The Church's attitude towards birth control, and the impact this attitude has on
third world countries (where over-population is the most severe, along with
disease) is one of the main reasons I've not been a 'practicing Catholic' for
many years. I attend (when I go) a Lutheran church now.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."