This article (link via Fark?!!?) discussing a catholic archbishop's comment that abortion is a bigger scandal than priests abusing children, "Because it's (abortion) always a destruction of human life," plays into the comment i made the other day about the pro-life argument for better sex ed and contraception... If cutting down abortions is more important than stopping sexual abuse of children, how can it possibly be less important than cutting down the amount of consensual sex among unmarried teens and young adults?

One could simply conclude that the religious right is evil, but that really misses the point. People have their views for reasons and in any group there are smart leaders and they tend to be roughly consistent. I think this inconsistancy can only last so long...