Sexuality and Catholocism
I didn't really know what to title this thing, so there's as close as I can get. Last night, I attended the discussion panel about contraceptives being handed out at King's College, and my personal view is that it was an awesome discussion. I must say, our president is pretty funny, and same with the residence representative. Although whenever Dr. Brody spoke, he lost me. I had no clue what he was talking about half the time. Too advanced for me. Hehe. Anyways, I thought it was great that all kinds of students showed up, from various religions and beliefs. The panelists, I thought, argued, or presented rather, their reasons for banning contraceptives from being distributed by the Catholic school very well.
A few reasons I picked up on was pretty much the sanctity of marriage and how sex should be between two people who love each other and are married, for a couple of reasons:
1. It prevents having children being born into an unstable or unprepared family, basically. It makes the conditions of raising a child much worse if the two people aren't married or even know each other very well.
2. It presents the spreading of STDs. This is because if two people have sex when they're married, and only when they're married, it is virtually impossible to spread or get an STD. Makes sense to me.
Also, if that didn't matter to you, they also presented the reason that if King's lost its status as a Catholic school, we would be shut down and would have no funding, our degrees wouldn't count for anything, everyone would lose their job, it would be hard for students to tranfer, etc......
I also thought it was cool that it was open to the audience to ask questions, make comments and other stuff. Everyone was really into the discussion and it kept going on, so finally, the host had to end it even though several other people still wanted to talk. Overall, it was a really good presentation and I almost fully agree with the panelists on this issue. Sorry I don't have a whole lot of information. I have to write a thing on this, so I'd rather do it there than here.
Have a good night everyone! :)
A few reasons I picked up on was pretty much the sanctity of marriage and how sex should be between two people who love each other and are married, for a couple of reasons:
1. It prevents having children being born into an unstable or unprepared family, basically. It makes the conditions of raising a child much worse if the two people aren't married or even know each other very well.
2. It presents the spreading of STDs. This is because if two people have sex when they're married, and only when they're married, it is virtually impossible to spread or get an STD. Makes sense to me.
Also, if that didn't matter to you, they also presented the reason that if King's lost its status as a Catholic school, we would be shut down and would have no funding, our degrees wouldn't count for anything, everyone would lose their job, it would be hard for students to tranfer, etc......
I also thought it was cool that it was open to the audience to ask questions, make comments and other stuff. Everyone was really into the discussion and it kept going on, so finally, the host had to end it even though several other people still wanted to talk. Overall, it was a really good presentation and I almost fully agree with the panelists on this issue. Sorry I don't have a whole lot of information. I have to write a thing on this, so I'd rather do it there than here.
Have a good night everyone! :)
