I'll be back with a longer post on the actual substance of the contraceptive mandate and my ideas about the reasonable limits to the idea that religious mandates exempt you from the law, but I can't pass up the chance to geek out about social science statistics and methodology. You've all probably heard the "98% of Catholic women use contraception" statistic cited by now, and people have started to take a closer look at the relevant study. Let me chat you through some of the … [Read more...]
Comments are still a little bit in flux here. Because Disqus was causing problems, it's been stripped off and we're back to plain old wordpress comments until things get sorted out. On the plus side, this means that all the previously vanished comments are back! Oh, and speaking of comments, today I want to point you to a conversation that's going on over at Marc's Bad Catholic blog here at Patheos. Marc wrote a post called "10 Reason the Pill Sucks" and, although I disagree with … [Read more...]
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