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.