“However, he contributed greatly to turning the issue being discussed from freedom of religion to whether contraception should be banned.”
Please stop repeating leftist lies.
Rush did not in any way suggest that contraception should be banned. He repeatedly rejected that idea, and pointed out repeatedly that NO ONE in the GOP is suggesting it.
As I pointed out in my previous post to another member:
“He used absurdity to highlight absurdity - as he always does. The idea that a coed in law school has time for sex 5 times a day is absurd - thus the idea that a coed in law school needs the government to help her pay for her birth control is absurd.
The first absurdity (she has sex over 1,000 times each year) reveals the second absurdity (she needs help paying for birth control). The first is a funny mental image, but the fact that the idea is ridiculous means her testimony and her argument for sponsored birth control was ridiculous.”
I never said any such thing.
I said what Rush said contributed to allowing the Left to effectively change the subject. I think that, however ludicrous, is an undeniable fact. The subject DID get changed, and what Rush said helped them change it.
Rush seldom loses in a war of words, but he got out-manuevered on this one. The facts are more or less irrelevant in this case. The public perception is what matters.