{ 1 } - From its beginning, Christianity rejected contraception.
{ 2 } - After the Reformation, the Catholic Church was the only Christian denomination to hold that contraception was sinful.
{ 3 } - Contraception outside of marriage was condemned by Chrisitianity because it facilitated sin.
{ 4 } - The Catholic Church holds that contraception is a serious sin.
{ 5 } - The Protestant churches' approval of contraception began with the Anglican Church at its Lambeth conference in 1930.
{ 6 } - Christianity's rejection of contraception is based on the ethical inseparability of the unitive and procreative purposes of the sexual act.

On the contrary, the sinfulness of contraception was not questioned by the major Christian churches until this century. See p. 273.