Contraception and persecution /

Rice, Charles E.

Contraception and persecution / Charles E. Rice ; introduction by Alyssa Bormes ; preface by Steve Mosher. - xvi, 117 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part I. Persecution under way. A preliminary bout : the HealthCare Mandate ; The unjust law : obey? Or what? ; The main event : a "queer" America? ; The Supreme Court on same-sex "marriage" -- part II. Underlying causes of persecution. Introduction ; The dictatorship of relativism ; Conscience redefined ; The Constitution : moral neutrality ; The Constitution : still taken seriously? -- part III. An unacknowledged cause : contraception. Introduction ; Nineteen centuries of condemnation ; Consequences ; A first commandment problem ; A teaching untaught -- part IV. The response. Truth, trust and prayer.

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Contraception--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Birth control--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Birth control--Law and legislation--United States.
Church and state--United States.
Church and state--Catholic Church.
Persecution--United States.
Same-sex marriage--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--United States.
Reproductive rights--United States.
Birth control--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Church and state.
Church and state--Catholic Church.
Contraception--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.


United States.

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