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.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. 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.1Īs 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. 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 Mary Eberstadt.
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