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there's a growing wing of the conservative protestant church that rejects birth control as unbiblical. they have a few favorite passages, and use them to great effect.
i'm of the mind that we are given stewardship of our selves, and for a time our children. it is ours to make responsible choices about both.
it would help to know more about her background, and what sources she's citing. my guess is that she's reading Sam and Bethany Torode's book, "Open Embrace."
i guess it's odd for me to think about this. i'm baptist, and have a pretty conservative religious vocabulary, but opposition to birth control never crossed my radar until quite recently, and came as a total shock. i'm of the mind that it is a area of Christian freedom, a place in our lives in to which God entrusts both the power of decision and responsibility for the outcomes. I've seen large families that are loving and strong, and others that are torn apart by too many demands on the parents. Choosing a large family isn't wrong...but not being responsible for how many kids you have...that could be.
if you felt that you had enough children, and could not in good conscience use birth control...could you forgo relations with her? or would that too be an issue?
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