Why would anyone, least of all Newsweek and Washington Post, give culture warrior Bill Donohue a forum? This is Kulturkampf:
The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they’re too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.
Just to be perfectly clear, Donohue doesn’t think anyone has the right to use birth control, much less get an abortion. Yet he’s shocked and angry that American popular culture portrays his “values” as small-minded, stupid, and more than a little fascist — which they are.
Donohue was just ranting at our popular culture, but his post comes a day Rush Limbaugh launched a rather outrageous attack on a month-old blog post by the NYT’s Andrew Revkin: “Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology?“
More children equal more carbon dioxide emissions. And recent research has resulted in renewed coverage of the notion that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it.
Here is Rush Limbaugh throwing his lot in with the hostile birth movement, inviting Revkin to kill himself:
Kulturkampf is all about power. The culture warriors know they’re out of touch; the new plan is to outnumber us the old-fashioned way.
