Last Friday, a quote from an unnamed source appeared on Time Magazine columnist and conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan’s blog THE DAILY DISH in his entry Theocons vs. Breeders:

I am a breeder. Not just a breeder, but a breeder who has bred. I treasure my children, and regard them as the greatest among many gifts my union with my wife has brought me. I know as well as anyone else that conceiving children can be one of the great joys of having sex.

But I deeply resent the suggestion, the assertion that by taking steps to avoid an unplanned pregnancy, or engaging in intimate acts that could never result in pregnancy that we have somehow degraded our love for one another, or debased the intimate time we spend together. I resent it when someone says that about my wearing a condom or my wife using contraceptives, and I resent it when someone says that about two men loving one another or two women loving one another. However it’s said, it’s an outright assault on the most precious, personal aspect of the relationship between me and my wife.

“I didn’t demand my wife prove her fertility before we were wed, nor did she ask the same of me. We became lovers, and then became husband and wife in large measure because of the sexual desire we felt for one another. And I deeply resent the assertion that the way I feel about my wife can only be justified by the possibility of conception.

If these words seem familiar to you, it might be because you read them here in my May 9, 2006 entry IT’S NOT ABOUT PROCREATION, a reference to the first line of DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER. (Sullivan’s edited version is consider less earthy than the original. I suppose that’s part of being a “conservative commentator”.)

This morning I see that Sullivan’s has also picked up on Violet Blue’s phrase “war on contraception” in his post about the appointment of anti-contraception activist Eric Keroack to the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s right, a man who believes that the “distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and adverse to human health and happiness” is in charge of federally funded family planning programs.

At the end of his Friday post, Sullivan says “I’m glad more and more heterosexuals are waking up to the theocon agenda.” Well I’m glad to see a least one conservative waking up to the theocon agenda too!

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