Prior to the 1930 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, the Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church's teaching against artificial contraception. The Anglican reversal ushered in our "sex for fun" culture.

Today, we are living with the awful consequences of artificial contraception that Pope Paul VI warned against in his 1968 Humanae Vitae encyclical, such as conjugal infidelity, a general lowering of morality, men losing respect for women and rampant government/court abuse of power. When man becomes "God," he loses respect for himself and for human dignity, and promotes the intrinsic evils of abortion, euthanasia, homosexual "marriage," embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

An adaptation of a Cardinal John Henry Newman quote: To be deep in history is to renounce moral relativism. With right reason, objective truth is knowable, and it is ultimately controlling in both religion and politics because objective truth reflects reality instead of man's misguided fantasies. Our society has replaced "thinking" with "feeling" and unchangeable principles with changeable whims - today's "qualifications" for judicial nominees.

For moral decisions, there cannot be contradictory truths. Our decadent culture illustrates the point. Only one statement can be true: killing innocent human beings is murder, vs. killing innocent human beings is morally acceptable if the victims' lives are inconvenient - i.e. the unborn or elderly. Another example: Stealing your neighbor's money in a burglary is a crime, vs. government taking your neighbor's money and giving it to you is moral.

Historically, sexual intercourse is moral only between one man and one woman in marriage. Given our liberal government's assault against objective moral truth, one may soon be able to "marry" one's dog.

By reducing the Ten Commandments to mere suggestions, we are no longer "one nation under God," but a polarized nation in amoral chaos. Now, that's a man-made disaster!