The Sex-Blind Delusions of a Contraception Fight - By Charles P. Pierce
The Sex-Blind Delusions of a Contraception Fight
By Charles P. Pierce
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Why just today, Newt Gingrich, a recent convert toward Catholicism and away from wife-dumping and staff-banging, brought his own judicious historian's perspective to the controversy, declaring the administration to be at war with religion. And a while back, of course, the administration's Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, announced that, why, yes, contraception would be covered under the Affordable Care Act — why do you ask? This occasioned some outraged squealing from the usual quarters, most notably from the institutional Roman Catholic Church which, in matters of human sexuality, at the moment enjoys the same moral credibility as a goat.