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Oh, and that lying wheeze about about how the Church is somehow trying to ban birth control that the White House is telling?\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 When you stick a gun in my ribs and force me to cough up money for your birth control, my decision to knock the gun from your hand and kick you in the groin is not \u201cbanning birth control\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s self-defense.<\/p>\n

Birth control is cheap and easy to get if you want it.\u00a0 Knock yourself out.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s so cheap and easy to get that it\u2019s screwing up the water supply.<\/a> But, of course, in the hierarchy of Trendy Values, sexual license for Blue State lefties particularly when layered with a tasty condiment of fashionable anti-Catholicism, trumps fake concern about the environment every time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"