TY - BOOK AU - Rice,Charles E. AU - Bormes,Alyssa AU - Mosher,Steven W. TI - Contraception and persecution SN - 9781587311550 AV - HQ766.3 .R53 2014 U1 - 241/.663 23 PY - 2014///] CY - South Bend, Indiana PB - St. Augustine's Press KW - Contraception KW - Religious aspects KW - Catholic Church KW - Birth control KW - Law and legislation KW - United States KW - Church and state KW - Persecution KW - Same-sex marriage KW - Reproductive rights KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -