March 13th, 2012
Every once in a while it becomes absolutely clear that liberals and conservatives are viewing the same issue through lenses so different as to make them essentially make them unintelligible to one another. The hubbub about women pushing for restrictions on Viagra is one of those instances.
I’d trade intense regulation of Viagra–and all sorts of other male-enhancement regimes–for the tiniest marginal restriction in abortion or even some consideration as to the pushing of contraception in schools, on churches, etc. Would do it in a New York minute. And I’m pretty sure that most conservatives would, too.
Why? Because for conservatives, abortion isn’t about sex, it’s about protecting innocent life. And contraception isn’t about “sex” except in the most prosaic sense–it’s really about freedom of religion, freedom for parents to teach their own kids as they see fit, and (at the highest level) about the macro effects on society, including fertility, family formation, divorce, and other big-ticket items.
Yet the left–or at least much of it, I don’t want to be too reductionist–thinks that it’s all about sex, sex, sex. It’s not that they disagree with the broader arguments–they can’t even see or understand them. So they think, Those troglodytes want to take away our constitutionally protected right to make boom-boom? We’ll show them! We’ll make it harder for them to have sex, too! That’ll show them.
I’d be happy to take them up on the offer.
ChrisinTampa March 13, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Good explanation…I’ve been feeling the same for quite some time. Me and my liberal friends don’t even speak the same language.
I liken it to the Christian conversion experience, as Paul wrote in 1 Cor 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
Finding common ground is the only way to get them to see the truth in the abortion debate (or the current brouhaha of the Fluke affair).
Side note: Did you even get a chance to see that video 180movie.com?