[Monica]

African Americans did NOT invent country music. It came from the folk-music traditions of the people of English/Scottish/Irish descent in the Southern United States. To deny the white roots of country music would be as ignorant as saying white people invented jazz. That being said, there are definitely instances of each group affecting the other, like Cowboy Troy in country music and Diana Krall in jazz.

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[Monica]

Hi Jim, It seems to me that you asked this question honestly, hoping for honest answers and all you got were responses filled with personal hangups. The Church does NOT teach that you can not have sex unless there is the possibility of conception. Otherwise it would require that married spouses only engage in intercourse the brief period each month when a woman is fertile. What it does teach is that married couples, (who are the only ones who should be sexually active in the first place)should do nothing to disrespect the way God created the human body. A healthy adult male and female are fertile. Fertility is not a disease to be cured by surgery or controlled by a pill. Furthermore, in engaging in ‘unprotected’ sex, you are really making yourself vulnerable and open to your spouse. You are saying ‘I love you completely, as you are and I accept that fertility is part of your very nature.’ If you truly love your spouse, you don’t need protection from him or her. In this way, contraception becomes a sort of barrier to complete love. That being said, The Church does not expect a financially struggling couple to keep producing a baby every year under pain of excommunication. Children can be spaced licitly using Natural Family Planning (NFP), which is NOT the ineffective and often ridiculed ‘rhythm’ method popularized in the 60’s. This system of abstaining from sex in the time a woman is fertile is based on scientific information and although it takes a good deal of discipline to practice, can be quite effective. (I knew a couple who married very young, while they were still in college and were able to put off a pregnancy for 4 years until both had diplomas and had begun their careers.) As far as menopause, it is a natural cycle of a woman’s life and there would be no reason why it would preclude intercourse. I hope this answers your question. If you want to know more, http://www.catholic.com has very detailed and complete information on this and other areas of Catholic teaching. Take care

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