Terri Whitehouse October 17th, 2007

From the Wall Street Journal comes news of yet another assault on logic by the Bush administration:

The Department of Health and Human Services appointed Susan Orr — who has spoken out against contraception — to a post responsible for U.S. contraception programs.

Orr, who will be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs, has been directing child welfare programs in another branch of HHS. Prior to joining the Bush administration, Orr was senior director for marriage and family at the Family Research Council, a conservative group that favors abstinence-only education and opposes federal money for contraception.

As one might imagine, the origins of the FRC stem with some rich WASPy dudes in the Reagan era. They pretty much think that death is a fair punishment for engaging in sex, hetero or homo, lest their WASPy male privilege be threatened. Even Jenna frickin’ Bush thinks that is bullshit.

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