"OK... when exactly did the use of birth control become "controversial?"

[LuckyTheDog]

Are we really going to have this debate in 2012?

This country has gone nuts.

[sufrommich]

1. When the unemployment numbers started going down. nt

[tallahasseedem]

18. ^This

[AlinPA]

2. It is now the issue that is driving Santorum's popularity with the GOP voters.

Not jobs, not foreign policy, not taxes, not defense, not infrastructure...but birth control!?

[kestrel91316]

3. When Reagan began pandering to the fundies. But it didn't get really bad until Dubya.

The Dominionists have been gaining in strength and numbers in politics for decades - they use stealth, they lie about their true views and try to get into positions of power so that they can institute theocratic rule per Leviticus.

I've been quite concerned about them for 15 years. They stayed below the radar until they felt they had enough numbers to come out and openly promote their agenda. But they still will deny that they actually seek things like stoning gays to death and the death penalty for abortion.

[PearliePoo2]

9. Sarah "Wolf-Killer" Palin.....

is a perfect example of the Domionist's reach for power.
She has been "groomed" and selected by these dangerous whack-jobs as one of their chosen ones.

edit: To the person that gave me the HEART...Thank you VERY much!!

[Arkansas Granny]

14. I started getting concerned about them when I saw that they were running their buses

through neighborhoods bribing kids with candy and treats to get them to church. They weren't teaching the kids as much as they were indoctrinating them.

[LiberalLoner]

4. It is tied to the rising levels of hatred and resentment I think.

What I'm seeing is that there is a growing group of people who want to see harm done to women, minorities, the poor, anyone who has traditionally lacked in power. There is a growing group of people who are becoming downright sadistic in their temperment and their thoughts, mostly based on resentment at not getting what they felt they deserved in life.

It's like that old stereotype of, have a bad day at work so you come home and kick the dog and beat the wife and kids.

I really see this as being all about the glee and release of emotion that comes with being able to cause pain to someone seen as less powerful.

It is no longer about sound policy. It is no longer about what is best for this nation. It is no longer even about religious freedom or political differences.

It is about abuse, plain and simple.

I know abuse when I see it. I know the look of glee in the abuser's eyes when he backs you into a corner and uses you as a punching bag.

I see that same gleam in the eyes of the Republicants and their followers.

[JHB]

7. The Republicans and RW media have been fostering that type...

...and they're feeling their oats. They should try showing off how many of them there really are, just to show who's boss. Maybe they should all wear the same kind of shirt.

I wonder what color it should be....

[JHB]

5. If you've peeked under the hood of the Authorized Sex crowd...

...(that would be the people who oppose abortion rights and pretend it's just about babies) it's been there all along.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I think it was prior to the Comstock Act in 1873 until 1938 when birth

control was formally legalized in the USA.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. 1972 Eisenstadt v. Baird

It has only been a very short time, the brief enlightenment of the 60's and 70's. Surrounded by darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt_v._Baird

Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), was an important United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially nonprocreative sexual intercourse (though not the right of unmarried people to engage in any type of sexual intercourse).
The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

It is fucking depressing, pun intended.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

Struck down a Connecticut law that actually made all contraception illegal and one of the first cases to discuss the "penumbra" of rights that included the "right to marital privacy". That law had been on the books since the 1870's (a time a great religious "revival" in this country) but had never really been enforced.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. Yes indeed - but until Baird states were continuing to make life miserable for us young fuckers.

And now they are right back at it again, only I am an old fart just worried what kind of hideous mess I've left for my kids.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. We are in another goal post shifting event.

And the response from our party's leadership will be: slide to the right.

[justiceischeap]

11. About 10 minutes ago... nt

[chowder66]

12. When the topic of economic inequality wouldn't go away. eom

[Evasporque]

13. When the Republicans put thier "stupid box" around it....

Its magical, its maniacal its the Republican STUPID BOX!

Any topic once inside the Republican Stupid box is deemed controversial. Try it for yourself!

I am going to put the Republican Stupid Box over Kindergarten.

Kindergarten fosters lazy work habits because of naps. We should have kids working cleaning bathrooms not napping. Why do we even send kids to school at that age they don't really do anything. It is state sponsored child care for over paid union freeloaders.

[leveymg]

15. Around 1961.

Not so much a decade later until about 3 days ago.

We're moving backwards.

[Johonny]

21. we're not

the small band of people looking hopelessly for reason to vote Republican because there is no sane reason to is. I 'm pretty sure that's not you, I or the average American voter.

[Spazito]

20. After the President fulfilled his promise and got rid of Osama...

after the auto industry showed the 'bailout' worked and after the economy showed signs of improvement. The only thing left for the repubs to drum up faux outrage about is wedge issues and what 'better' wedge issue than 'Obama is coming after God and the only way to stop him is to vote republican'.

It's not working, the public is going 'yawn' as they go about their daily lives.