I just found a very interesting site, yourmorals.org, created by researchers looking into how people make moral choices and what kinds of moral frames lead well-meaning folks of different beliefs and backgrounds to make different moral choices.  You have to register to use the site, but that only takes a minute and allows your answers to the very interesting questionnaires and moral dilemmas to further research into how humans make moral decisions.

Have fun and feel free to share any interesting results.  So far I have found out that I make moral decisions based much more on whether someone will be harmed than whether or not traditional social rules will be broken.  This will come as no surprise to readers of this blog.

Posted earlier this week, Jennifer Fulwiler’s America magazine article,  A Sexual Revolution: One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic, hinted at Humanae Vitae :

Given my [secular] background, the Catholic idea that we are always to treat the sexual act with awe and respect, so much so that we should simply abstain if we are opposed to its life-giving potential, was a revolutionary message…..

In fact, Humane Vitae, promulgated 40 years ago, was not revolutionary. It was consistent with Christian tradition and teaching, Catholic and Protestant, going back 2000 years. What was revolutionary was the public reaction to Humane Vitae by various Catholics — and others –who demanded the teaching not apply to them.

There was so much outcry, in fact, that few would have forseen a new, vigorous, growing defense of Humane Vitae 40 years later. Thirty-one year old Jennifer Fulwiler is but one of many today who understand that Pope Paul VI was not only right…