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Birth Control & Politics
[COMMENT: This is dynamite.... Getting back to God in all areas of sexuality. Including birth "control". E. Fox]
Birth Control
and Politics, Dr. Allan Carlson Speaks About New Book, 'Godly Seed: American
Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973'
How Have Evangelicals' Views On Birth Control Changed?
ROCKFORD, Ill.,
Jan. 10, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Allan Carlson,
President of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and Founder and
International Secretary of the World Congress of Families will speak about his
newly published book, Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control
1873-1973 on January 11th, 12 noon, at the University Club,
Ironically, many American evangelicals are rethinking their acceptance of birth
control, becoming part of the "Quiverfull" movement which rejects the use of
birth control and "returns decisions regarding family size to God." Raised
within a religious movement that has almost uniformly condemned abortion, these
young evangelicals have begun to ask whether abortion can be neatly isolated
from the issue of contraception. Read more about Carlson's latest book at:
www.transactionpub.com/title/Godly-Seed-978-1-4128-4261-7.html.
Transaction publishers has released the book and it is also available at
www.amazon.com.
Praises for the book are already coming in:
"Opposition to birth control is widely perceived as a 'Catholic issue.'
Historian Allan Carlson demonstrates that as a matter of historical fact, the
Christian churches were united in their opposition to contraception until 1930.
Carlson deftly shows how the change occurred, through a combination on 'divide
and conquer' tactics by the population control lobby, intellectual exhaustion
among the Mainline Protestants, and anti-Catholicism among the Evangelicals.
Highly recommended." -- Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Founder and President of
the Ruth Institute
"Evangelical Christians wanting self-esteem therapy should not read this book.
This provocative volume, by one of the world's foremost family issues scholars,
suggests that perhaps American Evangelicalism unwittingly traded the Blessed
Virgin Mary for Margaret Sanger. The arguments are hard-hitting and unrelenting.
Reading this book is like seeing an unwelcome reflection in a mirror. But it
just might start a conversation that is well worth having." -- Russell D. Moore,
Dean, School of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Allan Carlson is the founder and president of the Howard Center for Family,
Religion, and Society and has served as a distinguished fellow at the Family
Research Council. He is the author of numerous books including Conjugal America,
The Family in
For more information on Dr. Allan Carlson, The Howard Center for Family,
Religion & Society and the World Congress of Families visit
www.profam.org. To schedule an interview with Allan
Carlson, contact Larry Jacobs at 815-222-2490, larry@worldcongress.org or Judy
Hodge 815-964-5819, media@worldcongress.org.
The Howard Center for
Family, Religion and Society (www.profam.org)
located in Rockford, Illinois is an independent, non-profit research and
education center that strives to be the leading source of fresh ideas and new
strategies for affirmation and defense of the natural family, both nationally
and globally. The Howard Center is also the organizer of the World Congress of
Families project which is an international network of pro-family organizations,
scholars, leaders and inter-faith people of goodwill from more than 60 countries
that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the
'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of
The
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Date Posted - 01/10/2012 - Date Last Edited - 07/07/2012