Rick Perlstein: Why Obama Needs to Change to Win | Rolling Stone
Objectively, this stuff is insanely extreme. But it is not being reported as extreme. That’s the point. Instead, the media, doing what the media does, is merely reporting it as one pole in an ongoing, organic debate. Contraception is now “controversial.” It will remain so, forever and ever; these things never go back – any more than progressive gains like the desegregation of public accommodations, when they’re won by planting an ideological flag firmly and not budging, ever go back. This is how the country changes. The blogger Gaius Publicus is right: “What was just a few weeks ago was considered so mainstream as to [be] an afterthought (providing contraception) is now seen as some sort of controversial touchstone, even as ‘religious freedom’ has become a buzzword in the press.” Which was the religious right’s plan all along – ever since they crafted a ”Manhattan Declaration” to recast the extreme moral strictures they want to impose on the rest of the nation as accommodation of their “religious liberty.”
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