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Why The Church Was Right All Along
Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
TAN Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
Copyright 2018 Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the BibleSecond Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All excerpts from papal homilies, messages, and encyclicals Copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
Cover design by Caroline K. Green
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947545
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1245-0
Published in the United States by
TAN Books
PO Box 410487
Charlotte, NC 28241
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I thank Sue Ellen Browder for numerous helpful conversations about structuring the book. I thank all my audiences who have listened to or read parts of this material while it was in preparation. I particularly thank the participants of the Ruth Institute Literary Salon, the students assembled by the Alliance Defending Freedom, and the audiences of the Acton University over the years.
I also thank my friends and colleagues at the Ruth Institute, who conversed with me about these concepts, literally for years. Associate Director Jennifer Johnson has been an especially helpful dialogue partner over the years.
I thank the Earhart Foundation for financial support specifically for the writing of this book. I am especially grateful to Ingrid Gregg, the president of the Earhart Foundation, for her support and patience.
I thank all the friends and benefactors of the Ruth Institute. Thanks to their support, I have been able to spend the time needed to develop these ideas, share them with others, and best of all, refine them to make them accessible to a wide audience. Without all of you posing questions, sharing heartfelt stories, writing encouraging notes, and sending your checks large and small, I could not have worked out the ideas in this book.
Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Rob Morse, for his love and support over the years of our journey of marriage and parenthood. He made it possible for me to leave academic life. This allowed me both full-time motherhood and independent thought. I could not have written this book without both of those gifts. Thank you, honey.
I supplement many of the arguments in this book with the results of scientific research. Some readers may wonder: is this data too old to be useful? Is this study really current? Let me address that concern here, at the beginning of the book, since this question may arise in multiple places throughout the text.
Ask yourself why you think the age of the study matters. If the study is referring to a technological fact, then the date on which the study was performed may indeed matter. When I make claims about the dangers associated with some forms of hormonal contraception, it is theoretically possible that the pharmaceutical companies have made improvements in their products. In that case, my claim would no longer stand.
If, instead, the study is referring to a social fact, the date of the study may or may not be relevant. Children need their parents. People bond with their sex partners and with their children. Men and women are different. These are facts of human nature. Technology will not and cannot change these facts.
You may think that enough social change will overwrite these facts. If you think so, the burden of proof is on you, not me. I think it is frankly immoral to undertake a program of social change which depends for its success on having enough power to change human nature.
If the data in question refers to one of these perennial questions of human nature, an older study is actually quite valuable. In fact, a very early study showing that women are troubled by their abortions or that children suffer from the divorce of their parents is a damning indictment of the Sexual Revolution. Those old and obsolete studies show that we knew from the beginning that something was not going according to ideological plan. We had reason to know that people were suffering. We ignored that evidence.
Finally, I hope people will be reading this book for many years. If you pick up this book ten years after it was written, none of the studies will be current if by current you mean recent or the latest. If my hypothesis is correct, the age of the studies will not be a problem. The events that transpire between the time of this writing and the time you read this book should confirm my proposition that the Sexual Revolution has been a big mistake and that certain people are hanging on to it for dear life, regardless of the evidence, including social science evidence.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of povertyit is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. Theres a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, A Simple Path
T his book is about the ideology of the Sexual Revolution, the havoc it has created in the lives of its victims, and why we have been unable to make the connection between the two up until now. Once you see the connections, youll never be the same.
Let me introduce you to a few people who have been harmed by the Sexual Revolution. Elise is an actual little girl. Todd and Annette are composites of many people I have known. Perhaps you know similar people.
Elise is a six-year-old who lives with her grandmother and whose mother had a baby with someone other than Elises father.
I hate Thanksgiving. I hate it when my mom comes with her new baby and her new boyfriend. I dont feel like eating. Why do I have to live with my grandma? How come they are all fussing over the stupid new baby? Why doesnt my mom love me? Why does that dumb new baby get to live with her and I dont?
I hate Christmas. I could just bust up this idiotic Christmas tree. Why cant I go home with my mom? Why does that loser baby get to live with her mom and dad and I dont? I dont even have a dad, I guess. I hate all this Babys First Christmas crap. I dont care about any of the stupid presents. Where is my dad? Why doesnt he love me? Why doesnt my mom love me? Why doesnt anybody want me?
My grandma is nice, I guess, but I want my mom. Im mad at my mom, but she isnt here. She went back to her house with her boyfriend and their baby. Grandma is here. Im going to make life hell for Grandma. I think Ill break something. Maybe scream. Maybe throw stuff. Maybe Grandma will tell my mom to come and get me and take me back to her house to live with her where I belong.
Elise cant put all this into words of course. She expresses herself with her actions precisely because she cannot express her feelings with words. Her grandma (who is an acquaintance of mine) tells me that Elise is angry and acts out after every family holiday get together. For about a week after family holidays, she wets her bed every night, every time.
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