When Religion does not keep pace with Society

Vatican Issues Sex-Related Condemnations Jun 6th - 12:37pm By MARIA SANMINIATELLI Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican declared Tuesday that the traditional family has never been so threatened as in today's world, lashing out against contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization and same-sex marriage. [WTOP News]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. A group of single, mainly white, males, in their early 70s, who tend to wear robes, is telling me that their definition of the family is the same definition that is used in the world of 2006?

Gay activists should only be one of many groups that should condemn the Vatican's current statement of how out of touch it is with the world today. Human procreation has nothing to do with a family and never has. Procreation, a biological process, is related only to the continuation of the species. A family, on the other hand, is about the values and issues that shape and form the individual and the society that they live in.

The Vatican can be as opposed to contraception as it wants to be. At the end of the day, the Roman Catholic church is not paying for the upbringing of the children of a sexual union. If the children are really lucky, the two individuals involved in their creation are. It is not much of a stretch to see that most children are not that fortunate.