text: The government does not and should not have the power to enforce mortal sin. Or employers. Neither is in the business of spiritual direction and, again, that cannot be made mandatory, een within a Catholic setting and not even for Catholic employees. By the way, contraception use is not mortal sin. Neither is masturbation. Life begins at gastrulation. Every sperm is not sacred. Every sect act need not have a Neoplatonic end. You confuse stoicism with Christ. Not the same at all. If anything, Christ seemed more epicurian than stoic.