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1. REDEFINING MARRIAGE: Conjugal vs. Revisionist views
Conjugal
View: Marriage is the union of a man and a woman who make a permanent
and exclusive commitment to each other of the type that is naturally
(inherently) fulfilled by bearing and rearing children together. The
spouses seal (consummate) and renew their union by conjugal acts—acts
that constitute the behavioral part of the process of reproduction, thus
uniting them as a reproductive unit. Marriage is valuable in itself,
but its inherent orientation to the bearing and rearing of children
contributes to its distinctive structure, including norms of monogamy
and fidelity. This link to the welfare of children also helps explain
why marriage is important to the common good and why the state should
recognize and regulate it.
Revisionist View: Marriage is the
union of two people (whether of the same sex or of opposite sexes) who
commit to romantically loving and caring for each other and to sharing
the burdens and benefits of domestic life. It is essentially a union of
hearts and minds, enhanced by whatever forms of sexual intimacy both
partners find agreeable. The state should recognize and regulate
marriage because it has an interest in stable romantic partnerships and
in the concrete needs of spouses and any children they may choose to
rear.
What is Marriage by Girgis, Anderson, and George:
http://www.amazon.com/What-Is-Marriage-Woman-Defense/dp/1594036225
Shorter summarizing article: http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GeorgeFinal.pdf
Luther: "What is Marriage Really?" - A booklet based on two
marriage sermons by Luther on Hebrews 13:4 and Ephesians 5:22-33 -
translation and very helpful afterward by Rev. Holger Sonntag
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10rdc3gz8cf3rzb5-h7O2uLwK1AW0rNJP/view?usp=sharing
The One Flesh Union - a definition by Rev. Dr. Gifford Grobien: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NO0PmmEoIRI99Zg8pRqU4SeCREjigWQG/view?usp=sharing
Debunking the infertility argument by Katie Scheurmann:
http://heremembersthebarren.com/2013/07/08/is-procreation-an-intrinsic-quality-of-marriage/
The Natural Family: A Manifesto, by Allan Carlson and Paul Mero
Free download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fl-Gp-2QonX6VZKidx1uzO-1KdMHGY_d/view?usp=sharing
Book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Natural-Family-A-Manifesto/dp/1890626708
Interview: The Family’s Essential Role in Society, Dr. Allan Carlson 10/9/2008
http://www.issuesetc.org/podcast/Show74100908H2S1.mp3
2. NATURAL LAW ARGUMENTS
Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal, especially chapters by Baker and MacPherson
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Law-A-Lutheran-Reappraisal/dp/0758627335
Drawing
together the basic arguments of the "Twentieth Century Project",
"Strong Divine Command Theory Ethic", ontology, and the error of the
modern narrow Roman Catholic Natural Law argument in Humanae Vitae which
allows family planning as long as NFP is the only method used.
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2009/08/strong-divine-command-theory-ethic.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2009/06/natural-law-revisited.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2006/01/ethics-and-nature-of-sin.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2013/06/marriage-and-procreation.html
Humanae Vitae: Heroic, Deficient - Or Both? Latin Mass Magazine | John Galvin
Etc., Etc…
3. ABORTIFACIENT BIRTH CONTROL
Abortifacient Effects of Chemical, Hormonal, and IUD Birth Control Products According to FDA Labeling in the Physicians’ Desk Reference
ARCH FAM MED/ VOL 9, FEB 2000, Postfertilization Effects of Oral Contraceptives and Their Relationship to Informed Consent
LCMS Resolution 6-10: Guidance on Contraceptive Methods
4. DANGERS TO HEALTH OF EVEN "MEDICAL" USES OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL
A Bitter Pill to Swallow, by Lisa Everett, ethikapolitika.org, October 21, 2014 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tgsrHumviFsw1xQf30drTmKBG7k9zlYs/view?usp=sharing
5. HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC AND SUBSEQUENT CHURCH ACCEPTANCE OF BIRTH CONTROL
Godly Seed by Allan Carlson
http://www.amazon.com/Godly-Seed-American-Evangelicals-1873-1973/dp/1412842611
Shorter article: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=24-01-039-f#ixzz1IBWYIpQf
Allan Carlson's interviews on Issues, Etc.:
Planned Parenthood Founder Margarget Sanger’s Propaganda Campaign, 1/19/2011
http://issuesetc.org/podcast/668011911H2S3.mp3
American Evangelicals and Birth Control – Dr. Allan Carlson, 3/2/2012
http://issuesetc.org/podcast/960030212H2.mp3
Evangelicals and Birth Control – Dr. Allan Carlson, 1/24/13
http://issuesetc.org/podcast/11990124131.mp3
The Real History of American Attitudes on Sex – Dr. Allan Carlson, 5/14/14
http://issuesetc.org/podcast/15330514144.mp3
6. HISTORY OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF BIRTH CONTROL IN THE LCMS
Birth Control and the Lutherans by Graebner, 1969
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VP-xbHiaqeag3VbHZesNjDi0y6ksMLhU/view?usp=sharing
Reviews of Rehwinkel's 1959 CPH book Planned Parenthood
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2007/04/planned-parenthood-published-by-cph.html
http://www.hausvater.org/articles/214-medicating-against-motherhood.html
The influence of Rehwinkel's wife "Bessie":
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2013/03/dr-bessie.html
7. HISTORICAL POSITION OF THE CHURCH AGAINST CONTRACEPTION
Rev.
Heath Curtis, : "Should Christian Couples Use Contraception?" - What
the Bible, the Church's Witness, and Natural Law Have to Say about Birth
Control
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1goK4Jvrw2MVKcAmf7DO5EXcR44xoBIMu/view?usp=sharing
Contraception and Christendom by Rev. Dr. David S. Hasselbrook (2014)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0990664201/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The Bible and Birth Control by Charles D. Provan (LCMS layman)
http://onemoresoul.com/catalog/the-bible-and-birth-control-p193.html
8. ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE
Examples:
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2006/01/gods-word-and-procreation.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2010/09/this-coming-sundays-epistle-reading.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2012/04/for-holy-saturday.html
9. MARRIAGE AND CHASTITY
Circling
back regarding how Christians should define and understand the historic
conjugal view of holy matrimony, we then draw upon such works as
Chemnitz and Luther on Marriage and Chastity:
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-chastity.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2010/08/chastity-in-marriage.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2008/05/chemnitz-on-marriage-and-procreation.html
And even modern teachers like Rev. Stuckwisch:
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2009/10/marriage-and-family-of-god.html
He Her Honour and She His Glory, by Pastor Vernon S. Grieger, 1994
http://www.christiannewsmo.com/He_Her_Honour_and_She_His_Glory_by_V_S_Grieger_p/2510002190.htm
10. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE LOSS OF THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF MARRIAGE AND PROCREATION
Demographic Winter/Bomb
http://www.demographicbomb.com/
Loss of Membership and Missions
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2011/10/church-is-fruitful-for-christ.html
Homosexual Marriage: who redefined marriage first?
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2009/04/marriage-minus-procreation-equals.html
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2013/06/marriage-and-procreation.html
The relationship of religious decline and family decline as proposed by Mary Eberstadt:
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-west-really-lost-god.html
Oswald Spengler: The Sterility of Civilized Man
http://lutheransandcontraception.blogspot.com/2008/09/sterility-of-civilized-man.html
11. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY:
"Christians
and Contraception" Issues Etc. episode with Pastor Heath Curtis of Trinity Lutheran,
Worden, IL and Pastor Michael Walther of Good Shepherd Lutheran,
Collinsville, IL.
http://issuesetc.org/podcast/168021809H1p.mp3
Rev. Mark Preus:
"Be Fruitful and Multiply, Second Thoughts on Birth Control"
Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N653riZhQo-RL_fVUBPw3UtITJw2104l/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101192459254218417586&rtpof=true&sd=true
Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOqAPvyXj9ZsJX7-3f89J2i9Pk_oubGl/view?usp=sharing
Rev. Rolf Preus:
"And God Blessed Them . . ." http://www.christforus.org/AndGodBlessedThem.htm
“The Fruit of the Womb is a Reward” http://www.christforus.org/ProChildren.htm
Rev. Philip Hale:
"The Logic, Ideology, and Ascendancy of Child Prevention"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1djSRqqwQ0W2O6xLSA2qhwTVjC8GzimFX/view?usp=sharing
12. RAISING CHILDREN IN THE PAIDEIA OF GOD
Since
procreation is only the beginning of the vocation of parents, we should
also say something about raising children:
http://www.hausvater.org/articles/248-raising-children-in-the-paideia-of-the-lord.html
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