Apparently, the shift of the evangelicals happened not over abortion availability during the Carter years, but over the not-for-profit tax status of Bob Jones University being revoked over it’s no-blacks allowed policy.

Later, in preparation for Reagan, they decided that it would be more publicly palatable to pick abortion as their cause. Cuz good old fashioned uncoded racism didn’t sell as well.

Another interesting thing they mentioned is that up until Reagan, evangelicals treated divorce as a subject worthy of ostracizing anyone in the congregation who divorces. With the election of Reagan, suddenly divorce was no longer an issue.

That comic rocked.

The excellent thing is not just that it’s yoked to the side of angels this time, but that it really gets at the audience that needs to hear it. It’s speaking the language of people who believe that one joint will turn you into drug-crazed murderer or that sex before marriage will leave you a withered, unloveable, crazy cat woman. For the rest of us, it’s just amusingly overwrought (as the whole genre is).

I think that perhaps the author of this comment may be less than happy with her “seven great kids,” but doesn’t want to acknowledge that she made a choice to have those kids.

Don’t be silly. Mothers of 10 or 12 don’t have time to read. Or think too much. Or finish that degree. Or go for that promotion.

That’s why the wingnuts keep wanting to do away with contraception.

I’m going to agree with Amanda that this just sounds like this woman has to validate her own choices by having everyone else support/follow them. Anything that veers outside of what she knows is offensive, just like for some people who don’t want kids period end up “insulting” people who do. In this society everyone has to follow the same “rules” or else those who do will get pissed at those who don’t because deep down they’re probably second guessing themselves.