God's Protection?

From the Wall Street Journal editorial section comes this piece from an assistant professor from Wheaton College.

...evangelicals overwhelmingly support birth control (88%).

...Such pleasures are not lost on evangelicals. A recent trip to a local Christian bookstore suggests that evangelicals enjoy sex--and often. The classic Christian sex manual, "Intended for Pleasure" (1977), has been joined by many others. "Sizzle" seems to be the new goal: At least four new books use the word in their promotions.

A pro-contraception outlook among evangelicals does not, however, imply a "pro-choice" position on abortion. In some cases, like Plan B--which may thin the uterine lining and prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg--contraception and abortion may appear to be the same thing.
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At issue is the matter of control. Anti-contraception evangelicals assert that birth control inappropriately wrests control of the body from the body's creator. Interestingly, the opposite argument is being made by evangelicals in the sexual-abstinence movement, according to my study of church-based virginity-pledge programs. Such evangelicals adopt the feminist argument of "my body, my choice" to curb teenage sexual activity. They believe that our hypersexualized culture--including the condom-in-the-schools crowd--wrongly implies that there is no choice.

Both the anti-contraception and the abstinence movements offer rewards: great sex in marriage for abstinent teens and the blessing of children for anti-contraception couples. But what reward is there for the 40-year-old virgin or the infertile couple? The rhetoric of sacrifice, it seems, has lost its sizzle.
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Still, many evangelicals portray abstinence not as obedience but as an investment in future great sex. For those who marry, the "my body, my choice" attitude contributes to a contraception culture that places fulfillment of personal desires ahead of God's desires.

Some evangelicals charge that the Pill has contributed to the moral breakdown of society; perhaps, but evangelicals' embrace of the contraception culture has not helped. It may have made Christianity sexier to potential adherents but diminished a public understanding of marriage in the process. For evangelicals, this may be a bitter pill to swallow.

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