Reply #27: This is the latest thing with crazy far-right fundies.

[keep_left]

The "Catholic" EWTN and Opus Dei types have had a conscious agenda for a long time to peel off the craziest of the crazy from the fundie movement and convert them to 13th-century Catholicism. It has a whipsaw effect on those who remain Protestant fundies, who naturally want to be more-fundie-than-thou. Now there are people in the fundie movement who talk just like the crazies on EWTN. Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, was one of them (before he got kicked out of his own movement for repeated extramarital affairs and embezzlement). Terry was always going off about the evils of birth control.

I should add that they're being pretty smart about how they're doing this. If you check out some of the stuff that James Dobson (Focus on the Family) puts out, his stuff only mentions contraception obliquely. And on EWTN and the other far-right "Catholic" media, all mention of the evils of the Pill occurs at mid-morning, when only stay-at-home moms with 12 children are watching, or at 2 AM, when no one is watching. The people at EWTN aren't too bright, but they know that they would have an audience of three--worldwide--if they yelled about this in prime time.

Mark my words--this is a frog in the pan of heated water approach to public policy. And it's highly organized.