![]() (2) In her recent book, Adam and Eve After the Pill, Hoover Institute Policy Analyst Mary Eberstadt, a Roman Catholic, considers the disastrous breakdown in American culture that has occured since the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the publication of the Catholic teaching Humanae Vitae in 1968. ![]() It was only after I became a Protestant minister and a practicing physician that differences in approach to contraception became evident and rose in importance. (1)Īs a Lutheran teenager, differences with Roman Catholics consisted primarily of things like saying the "Hail Mary," praying to Saints, confessing to a priest, or spending post-mortem time in purgatory. ![]() Only in the last third of the 20th century was it possible for a Lutheran, like myself, to be best friends with Catholic neighbors such as the Sorensons. In the wake of Vatican 2 (Catholic) and the ecumenical movement (Protestant-WCC, NCC), Protestants in that city no longer viewed Catholics as "enemies." In previous generations, Catholics were not allowed to join community organizations, let alone be friends. I grew up as a traditional Lutheran in a working class, primarily Roman Catholic, neighborhood on the south side of Milwaukee in the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution ![]()
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