RW Religious Leaders: Out Of Touch W/Their Congregations On Contraception

[LiviaOlivia]

Right-Wing Religious Leaders: Out Of Touch With Their Congregations On Contraception

The Bush administration has consistently increased funding for abstinence-only groups and public schools across the nation are being forced to push abstinence in sex education classes.

According to Russell Shorto in last week’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Contra-Contraception, these developments are a result of right-wing religious leaders’ growing influence on politics and public policy. He noted that according to these religious leaders, contraception “encourages sexual promiscuity, sexual deviance (like homosexuality) and a preoccupation with sex that is unhealthful even within marriage.”

What Shorto misses is the extent to which Catholics and evangelical Christians themselves use contraception. Here is the latest data:

88 percent of Catholic women currently use birth control, roughly the same rate as other Americans. Catholics for a Free Choice

70 percent of evangelical women are sexually active and don’t wish to become pregnant. 90 percent of these women use birth control. 2002 National Survey of Family Growth

Clearly, these women recognize what their religious leaders do not: that responsible sexual activity is a normal and healthy part of life; that not every sexual act is intended for reproduction; and that preventing unintended pregnancy – by using contraception – is a responsible, moral decision. Now if only our public officials would come to the same conclusion.

– Shira Saperstein

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/14/religious-contraception/

[Ringo84]

1. RW Leaders

Yeah. More like "out of touch period".
Ringo

[Kerrytravelers]

2. reich wing christo-fascist zombie-brigade members are so out of touch.

They terrify me. :scared:

[Mythsaje]

3. And in what way does contraception have ANYTHING to

do with homosexual "deviance?"

I'd love to hear the logic involved there.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Logic?

Now that's funny!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Mythsaje]

6. Okay...bad choice of words.

Rationale, maybe?

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Rationale? Their followers don't need reasons! They just follow commands.

You give them so much credit! :P

[Erika]

5. Gee, the Taliban and the Religious right nuts agree

that women should be submissive at all times to the man and that God/Allah/men will determine the reproductive rights of the woman.

Back to the 7th century for women's rights. McCain is out there yelling "me too".

How any republican woman can vote for this new breed of theocrat republicans is beyond me.

[Nobody]

8. To answer your question

How CAN Republican women vote for this new breed of theocrat republicans?

They don't think the rules of proper submissive behavior applies to them. Ask Phyllis Schlafly, Connaught Marshner, Ann Coulter, and Laura Schlessinger. None of them are stepping up to do what they want every other woman to do.

They must go first and not be terribly suprised when not very many women follow.

[hopeisaplace]

9. I wondered if anyone knows what their positions are on a man having a

Vasectomy?

That's contraception as well...many married men (and maybe not married?)
have them?