@Joelcool7:
Which religion forbids condoms or the pill? Certainly none that I know of. Abstinance is taught and the Catholic church says that people should abstane rather then use pills and condom's. They don't forbid it infact I'm not even sure many extremist groups (Islam or other) even forbid using the pill or condom's.
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You've got to be kidding me. The Catholic Chruch definatly forbids condoms. The Pope himself says so. Sex for non-reproductive purposes is a sin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12053610
The Pope goes as far as to lie that Condoms don't prevent AIDS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29404-2005Jan22.html
Judaism condems sex for non-reproductive purposes too (Onan, and other things from the Bible), and I'm pretty sure Islam is no different.
Married couples popping out a kid a year is rare, regardless of faith at least here in modernized countries. I don't know of a single family that has more then 3 kids. I am a Christian and the majority of the families I know have one or two kids. I also teach sunday school and the max I've seen is three.
If those Christians families didn't use contraception like their religion tells them too, they'd be popping out a kid a year (unless they stopped having sex).
Also who said all married couples in the US are religious? Then as you said many so called religious people don't practice abstinance, which is infact religious law. Are those people really religious?
Yes they are. And their lack of knowledge regarding safe sex is due to their religous upbringing.
Religion if practiced is not the enemy of family planning. At least not the abrahamic religions.
I don't know about other religions, but the Abrahamic religions are the biggest enemy of safe sex, and family planning.
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