July 3, 2010 – Catechism 369-373

The world today has some very twisted ideas when it comes to what a “man” and a “woman” are.  It seems more and more that we are clouding the line.  From acceptance of homosexual acts as completely normal to creating new laws for the transgendered, we have lost touch with the foundational facts.  Man and Woman are different.  Not better or worse, but different, and meant to be.  Whether we can blame the direction we are going on men who were too overbearing on women for centuries or the movement of women trying to become the men of society to the extreme, it does not end well.  God created them man and woman because their union is a special union which gives us an image of perfection in the Trinity and brings forth life to the world. 

The shift has lead to a world where single parents have become almost a majority.  Children were not meant to be raced that way and only time will tell how this has effected the generations for years to come.  It isn’t hard to see that the baby boomers ideas of free love and contraception has birthed Generation X’s ideas of friends with benefits, boody calls, and abortion as a means of birth control.  Men and Women are different.  No matter what we do, that fact does not change.  Embracing it for the beautiful thing God intended it too be is the path we must turn to.  To struggle against what is natural and true will only lead us further down the path we are going.  And it is not liberating, it is destructive.