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Sodomy Is Not Pro-Life

Posted on | January 3, 2011 | 14 Comments

Just pointing that out for the benefit of Andrew Sullivan who claims to be Catholic — e.g., his post about Epiphany — and seizes upon Ross Douthat’s pro-life column today to make a plea for “expanding adoption opportunities.”

Nudge. Nudge. While it’s tragic, I suppose, that Sully isn’t a zillionaire rock star who can afford a rent-a-womb boutique baby, is there any Catholic conservative pro-lifer who takes Sully seriously as either Catholic, or conservative, or pro-life?

Of course, I’m a Protestant and have no stake in defending Catholicism against Andrew Sullivan’s efforts to discredit that faith, but couldn’t some influential Catholic say a word to the Pope and get Sully officially ex-communicated?

Being pro-life is different than merely saying you’re pro-life. Pundette has an excellent post pointing out the Baby Boom generation’s failure to reproduce. The embrace of the Contraceptive Culture is more seriously implicated in that failure — a sinful disobedience to the commandment, “Be fruitful and multiply” — than such alternative lifestyles as practiced by Sully. Neverthless, pills and condoms sometimes fail to prevent conception, resulting in “happy accidents,” whereas no child has ever been conceived by sodomy.

Breeding: It’s a Beautiful Thing!

UPDATE: The Anchoress on the illogic that leads young women to prefer abortion over adoption:

The “I can’t carry to term then allow someone else to raise the baby” notion is a fundamentally flawed bit of moral reasoning–one that flourishes because, in this age of moral relativism we are discouraged from teaching sound moral reasoning. The dictatorship of relativism must be defeated.

It is not merely relativism, but also narcissism that’s involved: What young woman wants to get fat, sustain stretch-marks, possibly a C-section scar, etc., and then not have something to show for all that damage to her physique?

Possibly related: The Department of Health and Human Services has an online calculator to help single mothers determine whether they’ll lose welfare benefits by marrying their baby-daddy.

Because that’s what life is really all about: Maximizing your benefits.

UPDATE II: Maura Butler at Life News shares a reader’s e-mail:

I was 14 years old when I conceived my son. I was in a relationship with a 16 year old guy who had already had one son who he didn’t see much. I figured since he already had a child, he was mature.

(Hello? 16-year-old baby daddies are presumed “mature”?)

It turned out he was very controlling and abusive, so I decided to leave him. Two days after my 15th birthday, I found out I was pregnant. I was so scared and confused but he said he’d be there and take care of everything.
Just three weeks later, he told me he wanted nothing to do with me and I haven’t seen him since. . . .

(How do boys like this expect to get away with such behavior? Why isn’t this boy locked up in juvenile hall? Never mind: The girl’s sister drove her to the abortion clinic, but the girl decided against it.)

On November 3rd, I had my beautiful baby boy via c-section and am living with my dad with his support, and returning to school next year. I am so in love with my baby. I cry at the thought of ever even thinking about ending his life. I thank God everyday for helping me see the light through the darkness.

Well, OK. That’s good. But don’t we see in this story how disastrously far astray our culture has gone? Here’s a boy, 16 years old, having already fathered and abandoned one child, now getting a 14-year-old girl pregnant — and he’s not behind bars? He’s “abusive,” and yet seemingly has no fear that the girl’s male relatives will seek to avenge her?

Just as being pro-life is more than being anti-abortion, traditional values is more than being anti-fornication. Here is an excellent example of a traditional values response when somebody is “abusive” to your sister:

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  • http://waxingerratic.wordpress.com/ ECM

    It’s Sullivan’s alleged Catholicism and his lunatic ‘crusade’ against gay–oops, i mean pedophile*–priests that convinced me that he was, well, a lunatic.

    *Gotta keep up the narrative, doncha know!

  • Anonymous

    Well, of course, being celibrate is unnatural — but so is sitting in front of a computer typing incoherent gibberish, and Sully manages to do that every day, doesn’t he?

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    I never thought I’d ever defend Sullivan, but just because he doesn’t have the personal inclination to reproduce himself, which is probably a good thing, doesn’t mean he can’t be sympathetic to the pro-life cause. Seriously, the thought of having a kid makes me almost break out in hives, but I’m all in favor or good people having as many as possible. Progressive Democrats, not so much.

  • http://twitter.com/Sparks_123 Sparks123

    By this standard then, is Nancy Pelosi more pro-life than Ann Coulter?

  • http://waxingerratic.wordpress.com/ ECM

    Re: celibacy is “unnatural”.

    I don’t know: I’m not sure Catholics would necessarily agree w/ that (and Sully is, theoretically, a Catholic that seems to put little stock in the teachings of his own church), but I’m hardly a Biblical scholar* so maybe the view is different for various Protestants. (Not all, however, as I know several, hardcore, Evangelical Protestants that would swear the Bible supports* celibacy as completely natural and/or desirable, depending on the person.)

    *I am told 1 Corinthians 7 (amongst others) supports this and is a fairly mainstream pov.

  • Joe

    If the pro-life movement dedicated its every moment not to criminalizing abortion but to expanding adoption opportunities, it would win many more converts.

    Nice quote by Sully there. Hyperbole anyone, its the new salsa! The pro life movement is not about criminalizing abortion. Yes they want it banned, but no most pro life people are not about hanging abortion providers like in The Handmaid’s Tale. But as for expanding adoption opportunities–hello! We should be removing all incentives toward unwed mothers raising children and instead providing incentives toward putting babies up for adoption. Trust me, conservatives would support that. You know who is against it? Liberals.

  • Joe

    I do not care what Sully does with his partner/husband. I do not think whether or not he and his husband want to adopt is the issue. Although, I suspect they do not. A baby is not a beagle. And it is a bit harder to find a sitter than it is to kennel a dog.

    As for Sonny’s beat down of Carlo–emotionally satisfying at the time, but of course it did not work out to well for Sonny in the end (nor Carlo for that matter). The lesson there is Sonny would have been wiser not to have reacted predictably. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

    Talking about reacting predictably, mention the name Palin within a 100 feet of Sully and see what reaction you get. I suspect is is just as predicable as Pavlov’s dogs.

  • Datechguy

    As anyone who reads my blog knows I’m not a big fan of Sullivan but I actually thought this post was OK.

    Sullivan’s pronouncements on homosexuality and the Church are a regular embarrassment but I suspect from this post that there is still a glimmer of hope for the man. As long as that last connection to Christ still exists there is hope for redemption.

    God as a rule doesn’t give up on anyone and we each have the rest of their life to re-discover the right way.

    Sullivan’s Syndrome or no I encourage all to continue to pray for him.

    Remember It’s better to meet someone you don’t expect in heaven then try to take comfort in having someone you don’t like burning next to you in hell.

  • http://dad29.blogspot.com/ Dad29

    Stacy, you are confusing “natural” with “unusual.”

    That is to say, while it is unusual to be celibate, it is also natural, insofar as it is not UN-natural, as would be, oh, say,…..homosexual relations.

    You also have this problem with your assertion: if celibacy is un-natural, are you going to tell your daughters to be UN-naturally celibate? Or, as you imply, “naturally” sexually active?

    Hmmmmm?

  • http://dad29.blogspot.com/ Dad29

    Oh, and by the way: Christ was a perfect man (and also God); two natures, one person.

    And IIRC, He was celibate.

    You’re about to get hit by lighting or something….

  • Joe

    You are a good man. Your advice about heaven and hell well taken!

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