Care To Rethink Your Position on Contraception?

I learned something today from The National Post article: Sex And The Church. "At the beginning of the 20th century, all Christians were agreed with the ancient and constant teaching that making conjugal acts deliberately infertile was immoral." Apparently, both Protestants and Catholics were anti-contraception. In 1930 Anglicans, and subsequently Protestants, changed their position. Pope Pius XI and the Roman Catholic Church stood their ground. I did not know any of that. During Vatican II, Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the teaching and faced mocking and scorn from the wider culture. "Paul VI predicted that a culture of contraception would lead specifically to (a) widespread infidelity and lowering of moral standards, (b) men losing respect for women in their "totality" and treating them as objects for pleasure, (c) the imposition of involuntary contraceptive and sterilization campaigns on the poor of the world and (d) an attitude of technological domination of the body that would lead to an erosion of human dignity." The reasoning: "Once the principle is embraced that it is morally licit to deliberately separate sex from the possibility of procreation, then it follows inevitably that conjugal life need not be ordered to any inherent purpose, but can be directed toward other, or any, ends." It would seem that the Roman Catholic Church was correct. Interestingly enough, I read an article just yesterday that was linked on Newzjunky. Apparently there is a dating web site that is using the advertisement: "Life is Short. Have an Affair." The words appear over the background of a sensual picture of a man and woman's upper torso. This wasn't a spoof or play on words. It was a bona fide ad luring people to their site that is dedicated to promoting adultery. They have plans for advertising on TV and radio also. Some theologians would suggest we live a culture that would tolerate the promoting of infidelity precisely because we have embraced contraception.