Birth Control Key to “Pagan Society Based on Consequence-Free Sex”

Lindsay Beyerstein September 9, 2011

Jeffrey T. Kuhner, president of the Edmund Burke Society, has what appears to be a bracing rant against free contraception in the Washington Times:

In short, liberals want to create a world without God and sexual permissiveness is their battering ram. Promoting widespread contraception is essential to forging a pagan society based on consequence-free sex.

My theory is that Kuhner isn’t really a conservative operative. He’s a guerrilla marketer for Ortho Tri-Cylcen. With free publicity like that, everyone’s going to want some.

[HT: Robin Marty at RH Reality Check.]

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Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.