...since the Puritans landed at Plymouth.
Nearly four centuries. And we're still grappling with their angst over sex.
Is it more complicated than that? Of course. There are issues with STD's, teen pregnancy, gay rights, reproduction, marriage and others.
But at the end of the day, it comes down to religion based shame.
I won't even get into the absurdity of having a debate about contraception while we're slogging our way out of a historic economic crisis.
Reagan cynically saw poor Christians as an untapped electoral resource and made outlawing abortion a republican issue. Sadly churches played along. They facilitated pigeonholing their congregations into one issue voters. Who cared if republicans disagreed with Christian faith on virtually everything else? "Don't you dare vote for a baby killer" to quote a preacher whose church I once sat in.
Thirty two years later, Rick Santorum is winning a presidential primary by pounding the lectern about abortion and making a contraception a states' rights issue.
Apparently job creation is a stale message when people are screwing.
Did it ever occur to Rick that perhaps sex is one of the few pleasures Americans can still afford? I get that like most republicans, he wants to strip away labor and civil rights protections progressives spent the last hundred years achieving. But he even wants to take away sex?
The best argument the Christian right can muster is that sex is morally reprehensible and should have consequences. It seems to grate on them that contraception has so effectively worked against pregnancy. And it really seems to bother them that birth control has other medical uses.
Way to lead the charge straight back to the thirteenth century. Santorum has twisted the First Amendment into a club to pound religious beliefs into employees of church run institutions.
The Puritans would be proud. Keep the faith Rick.
Nearly four centuries. And we're still grappling with their angst over sex.
Is it more complicated than that? Of course. There are issues with STD's, teen pregnancy, gay rights, reproduction, marriage and others.
But at the end of the day, it comes down to religion based shame.
I won't even get into the absurdity of having a debate about contraception while we're slogging our way out of a historic economic crisis.
Reagan cynically saw poor Christians as an untapped electoral resource and made outlawing abortion a republican issue. Sadly churches played along. They facilitated pigeonholing their congregations into one issue voters. Who cared if republicans disagreed with Christian faith on virtually everything else? "Don't you dare vote for a baby killer" to quote a preacher whose church I once sat in.
Thirty two years later, Rick Santorum is winning a presidential primary by pounding the lectern about abortion and making a contraception a states' rights issue.
Apparently job creation is a stale message when people are screwing.
Did it ever occur to Rick that perhaps sex is one of the few pleasures Americans can still afford? I get that like most republicans, he wants to strip away labor and civil rights protections progressives spent the last hundred years achieving. But he even wants to take away sex?
The best argument the Christian right can muster is that sex is morally reprehensible and should have consequences. It seems to grate on them that contraception has so effectively worked against pregnancy. And it really seems to bother them that birth control has other medical uses.
Way to lead the charge straight back to the thirteenth century. Santorum has twisted the First Amendment into a club to pound religious beliefs into employees of church run institutions.
The Puritans would be proud. Keep the faith Rick.
