{"id":135,"date":"2012-02-04T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2012\/02\/money-and-sex\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T10:41:00","slug":"money-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2012\/02\/money-and-sex.html","title":{"rendered":"Money and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>That headline got your attention didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>This week we have witnessed jubilation in pro life ranks about Komen\u2019s decision to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood. Then jubilation turned to lamentation when Komen seemed to reverse their decision. Now there is recrimination, bitter and angry words being dished out towards Planned Parenthood and the liberals in the media and politics who seem to have pressured Komen to reverse their decision.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood and their supporters are being blamed for a \u2018mafia like shakedown\u2019 of Komen. The politicians behind Planned Parenthood are being blamed for pressuring Komen. The pro aborts are accused of lying and scheming and planning to close Komen down for good.<\/p>\n<p>Much talk on both sides has been blathered about \u201csaving women\u2019s lives\u201d, \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d, \u201cserving women and curing breast cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fuhgeddaboudit. It\u2019s about money and sex. Lots of money and lots of sex.<\/p>\n<p>If it was about saving women\u2019s lives, then we would all listen to the increasing voices reminding us that birth control pills cause breast cancer and we\u2019d stop prescribing birth control pills. But if we stopped prescribing birth control pills we would not be able to have \u201cfree love\u201d any more. Furthermore, the hugely profitable business of supplying birth control pills would take a hit.<\/p>\n<p>So much talk about saving women\u2019s lives, but if we wanted to save women\u2019s lives and improve women\u2019s health we would stop abortion because abortion hurts women physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. But if we stopped abortion we would not have the solution to our \u201cfree love\u201d when the contraception doesn\u2019t work. Furthermore, abortion is big business. There are lots of people employed in the abortion industry. They\u2019d lose their jobs and their incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone also noticed how much money is involved in the \u201cwomen\u2019s health charities\u201d? Millions of dollars flow in and around and through both Komen and Planned Parenthood. Charity is big business, and it\u2019s hard work getting all those donations, all that government funding, and keeping the money flowing. Politicians have to be lobbied. Fat cats have to be schmoozed. Expensive publicity campaigns have to be undertaken. Expensive fund raising events have to be organized. There are plenty of jobs in the charitable industry, and plenty of people who want to build a safe barn for their cash cow.<\/p>\n<p>Now don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m all in favor of saving women\u2019s lives and improving women\u2019s health. But that is not the real priority for the worldlings. The first priority is to get as much sex and money as possible as soon as possible and to keep both as long as possible. Every technology and propaganda tool will be used to \u2018correct\u2019 any problems (like a pregnancy, an unwanted marriage or a sexually transmitted disease) that come from the indulgence in sex and hoarding of money. Every power, position and force will be used to preserve the flow of money and sex, and any person or movement that threatens either the money or the sex will be met with all the snarling fury of a cornered beast.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d racket is just that\u2013a racket. I reckon the best way to improve women\u2019s lives is to encourage the family. The woman\u2019s life I want to improve the most is the life of my wife, my mother, my sister, my daughter and their friends. Not only do I want to improve their life materially, and look after their health and welfare with them, but I want them to improve their lives and health and welfare. The first way to encourage the family is to encourage men to take responsibility for their actions, and to work with the woman they love to build a solid family unit which gives the woman and her children the health, welfare, security and happiness they need.<\/p>\n<p>The other way to improve women\u2019s lives and women\u2019s health is to encourage chastity\u2013and by this I don\u2019t mean to blame women for promiscuity. It takes two to tango. If men and women were committed to life long faithfulness in marriage and no sex outside marriage, then the health, welfare, self esteem and happiness of women would take a quantum leap forward.<\/p>\n<p>But all of this would mean that we would all have to put up with having less money and less sex. We\u2019d have to be monogamous and faithful and self disciplined. Men would have to respect and honor women for more than just sex. Women would have to learn to please men in other ways than just flopping down to give them sex. Both men and women would have to learn how to behave with self control, dignity and self respect. Marriage takes hard work. We would have to learn more about love and less about sex. We\u2019d have to learn how to make sacrifices and live for someone other than ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>If we did this, then both men and women would be happier and healthier\u2013 and in the long run they\u2019d probably also have more money and a better sex life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That headline got your attention didn\u2019t it? This week we have witnessed jubilation in pro life ranks about Komen\u2019s decision to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood. Then jubilation turned to lamentation when Komen seemed to reverse their decision. 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