It's sort of like medicare, though Steph. I think that those who think, "It's okay for ME" still want it covered by their insurance. The ones who don't think it's ever ok are likely a very small minority.

Anyway, this is my oasis and I shall stop in here to agree with you all.

I think that those who think, "It's okay for ME" still want it covered by their insurance.

Yeah, but -- covered for *them,* not for sluts. And I *totally* agree that that's a logically untenable position, but things like this don't seem to embrace the logic.

Sticking my head in the Natter door:

Please continue with the sanity and intelligence. A guy in the next section (who I normally like perfectly fine) just went on a rant about how Rush's 1st Amendment Rights are under attack. I can't engage him because his ridiculous co-worker just attacked me for wanting correct apostrophes in the doc he submitted. Please send chocolate (and maybe tranquilizers).

Yeah, it isn't just men. There are an awful lot of women who think women who aren't married shouldn't be having sex and should have to "accept the consequences" if they do, and that married women shouldn't use birth control because God wants us to have babies. Some of those women get spitting mad about those sluts having all that sex and not paying the price for it (the price being a baby, of course, not money for BC). Which sounds like jealousy to me.

GOP primaries in recent years have basically become a game show of Who Wants To Be the Wingnuttiest? The theory seems to be that the more obscenely offensive you can be to liberals, the more hard core conservatives will come out to vote for you.

In the general election, whoever wins will be competing for the center, and the tone will most likely change. (At least, if Romney is the candidate. Santorum will continue to spout exactly the same hateful drivel he's been spouting for years because he's a true believer. Mitt just wants everybody to like him and will basically say anything he thinks will be popular.)

I can't engage him because his ridiculous co-worker just attacked me for wanting correct apostrophes in the doc he submitted.

Wait, this guy agrees with Rush AND can't use apostrophes properly? Is he the anti-Buffista?

A number of years ago I posted a link to an article about pro-life women who nonetheless have abortions. Their thinking was along the lines of "Abortion should be banned because naughty sluts have slutty sex and because they're naughty they shouldn't be allowed to have abortions, but I'm not a slut because I have sex responsibly and maybe I was even using birth control so my abortion is OK."

A guy in the next section (who I normally like perfectly fine) just went on a rant about how Rush's 1st Amendment Rights are under attack.

"I wasn't aware that he had been arrested."

GOP primaries in recent years have basically become a game show of Who Wants To Be the Wingnuttiest?

That's what I'm thinking. They basically try to outflank each other on the right, until one of them is standing over a cliff like Wile E. Coyote holding up a sign that says, "Yipe!"

I remember watching the Prohibition miniseries on PBS, and how the people voting for it assumed that they were cutting off booze for the ethnic people. They didn't realize that the white Protestants having a glass of wine with dinner would be affected, too.