Contraception: the Logic of Ungenerosity

If liberals want to get contraceptives to all women, why don't they just start their own non-profit instead of forcing us Catholics to pay for and provide them? Because such would be a contradiction: the urge to contracept, especially other peoples' children, is intrisically an ungenerous one, and ultimately a eugenic one. The act of contraception is a "NO" to life, to children, to serendipity and surprize, to God's extravagance. Contraception is protection: it is a reaction of defensiveness, fear, and insecurity. Contraception is the reflex of one who feels poor, afraid, deprived, lacking in resources. It is the recourse of one bereft of the confidence of self-restrain. It flows, not from interior peace and integrity, but from tension, anxiety and restlessness.Contraception is rooted in a disconnect from God, the Generous One. It deconstructs the conjugal act, the sacrament of union and life, into a mutuality in use of the other. It is masculine instrumentalization of the woman's body. It empties the love act of faith and hope. It emasculates the male, depriving him of paternity. It attacks the body, heart and soul of the woman. It expands the masturbational urge of masculine insecurity into an ungrateful, violating intrusion into the body and soul of the woman. It is a deconstruction of sexuality as dignity in bi-polarity; it disparages femininity and virility in favor of an abstract, contrived, body-less androgyny. The liberal is liberated from communion with God; is freed from the patterns of God's plan as inscribed in Nature, Beauty and Being; is delivered into the isolation of personal autonomy. Unconnected and defensive, the liberal compulsively defends himself against chaos without and within. Unsheltered by family and Church, he uses the power of the expansive State to impose his paradign of control upon all, but especially upon the poor and the religious. He cannot help himself, the liberal: threatened and afraid, he is compulsed to impose his will through the coercive State. Lonely and orphaned, bereft of father (God) and mother (Church), he consoles himself with the illusion of technological control...over life, death, fertility and indeed Being. A Catholic, of course, is identical to the liberal in his fear, insecurity, and defensiveness. But recognizing, in the face of the Crucified, his poverty, sickness, confusion and sin...he brings them to the sacramental banquet, to confession and communion. He allows himself to be overcome by God's generosity: to be nourished, satiated, ravished, fascinated, intoxicated and infatuated at the altar. To the degree that this happens, he cannot help himself: his heart becomes pierced with joy and open to life, to newness and to God's liberality; he is poor himself and embraces the poor; he delights in gender, generativity and most especially generosity, not his own, but that from which he flows, that which flows into him and through him, that in which he lives, and moves and has his being.