Interesting juxtaposition

very interesting. though it would be hard to imagine any institution less progressive than good old christian right-backed government.

The Catholic Church has to operate in parts of the world where the dark-ages ignorance regarding prophylactics is wide-spread enough to really have some 'reality based' impact; the ongoing congnitive dissonance in this country allows people to spew invective about prophylactics, without having to really match their behavior up with their thinking, or deal with the consequences of that. However, given enough time to mis-inform students, we will once again have a sufficiently ignorant population and our own resurgence of the attending negative consequences to be reminded by reality why listening to the fundies really isn't a good idea. They do promise a better world - unfortunately, sometimes people really have to have strong negative feedback to make the connections.