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Like AIDS before it, the Left is seizing on the latest pandemic, Zika, to attack the Church\u2019s position on birth control<\/a>.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve seen multiple individuals from the CDC interviewed who have assured us that sex is not the primary concern.\u00a0 So far, there is one confirmed case where Zika was transmitted sexually.\u00a0 While that means there could be more cases resulting from sex, transmission by mosquito is still the biggest concern. <\/p>\n

Never ones to let facts and reality get in the way, the propaganda organs of liberalism swing into gear and immediately use this as leverage against the Catholic Church\u2019s position on birth control.\u00a0 It should be noted that the Orthodox Church also has the same teaching regarding birth control.\u00a0 The only difference is that the Orthodox Church appears willing to allow exceptions based on grave circumstances (it does not do so with abortion, but in some rare cases with contraception). So technically, it\u2019s not just the Catholic Church.\u00a0 And at the turn of the 20th century, it would have been all of Christendom.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, sex is the great carrot that liberalism dangles in front of a lazy, ill informed generation.\u00a0 After all, why else would people follow a movement that is increasingly bold about its belief that us little people must submit to the will of our betters?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 Sex!\u00a0 Hedonism and narcissism: The bread and circuses of modern liberalism.\u00a0 But to get there, you have to make sex devoid of consequences.\u00a0 And while abortion is the all important safety net, contraceptives are the preferred first line of defense.<\/p>\n

So seeing Zika and hearing that sex might be involved, liberalism once again shows its stripes.\u00a0 Rather than say \u2018Hey, it might be time to pull back on the whole sexual promiscuity package we\u2019ve been selling all these years\u2019, it instead promises to pass out more condoms and, despite almost 30 million dead from AIDS, insists this time it will work.\u00a0 And since the greatest obstacle to this narrative of free sex is the Catholic Church, if the left must exploit the suffering of innocents to advance its agenda, it will do so.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"