2- A Shameful Insight into Obama's HHS Mandate

2- A Shameful Insight into Obama’s HHS Mandate
The relentless pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone,  Birth of Mary - Sat. Sept. 6/12

We conclude with the most shameful policy promotion of the Obama Presidency.
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The federal government has it exactly backward. Let look at the evidence: First, there are declining levels of female happiness, best summarized in a paper by University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers.

The study shows that women are not only less happy than they were fifty years ago, but less happy relative to men, as well over the same time period. Were increases in sexual liberty for women a key determinant of happiness (sufficiently key to raise birth control above even life-saving medicines for federal favor), a simple time-series graph correlating the percentage of women using contraception in the U.S. with the percentage of women reporting themselves as “happy” would show a direct relationship.

Instead, we have more women accessing birth control but less female happiness as described above. This is not to suggest that women’s happiness overall does not depend on a host of factors. Of course it does. It is simply to say that if contraception assumed the degree of positive importance in women’s lives ascribed to it by today’s frenzied political advocates and interest groups, one would expect to see some sort of correlation between its exploding availability since the 1960s and levels of female happiness.

Second: even though conventional wisdom holds that sexualityism is “scientific.” whereas religion-or any theory linking the meaning of sex with its structure (i.e., the intimate union of woman and man) or outcomes (i.e. partner bond, babies) - is irrational, the conventional wisdom fails to account for the ideological roots of sexualityism are in the work of Sigmund Freud, who believed in freeing humans from sexual repression as a way of curing neurosis.

To put it mildly, Freud has been called into question by credible critics, such as Richard Webster and Juliet Mitchell. His work is taught in many universities, but is disappearing from the psychology department according to a survey reported in the New York Times. Some even consider Freud a deliberate fraud.

Further, evidence about what does correlate with human happiness shows a robust relationship between marriage and religious commitment, and happiness, for women and men. (See, for example, Arthur Brooks’s Gross National Happiness. This only makes sense. People are more than their bodily impulses, their nervous systems, or their momentary desires. They are a complex integration of body and mind, both body and soul, body and spirit (or however one wishes to phrase this union). Religious beliefs, and the associated drive to live them with integrity and to practice them in action, are therefore and unsurprisingly an important constitutive factor in human happiness.

The irony is rich: religious citizens and institutions are called reductionists or physicalists by their detractors, but it is instead those who reduce women’s happiness, freedom, and equality to experiencing a substantial number and variety of uncommitted and/or no procreative sexual encounters who should wear this badge.

Third: though the White House touts women’s equality as freedom from childbearing (celebrating the anniversary of the abortion decision, Roe v. Wade, President Obama stated: “Our daughters must have the same opportunities as our sons”), the social and economic is clear that achieving this result through large-scale birth control and abortion programs also means more casual sex, more no marital pregnancy, and more abortion (all of which America is witnessing). Yet the main driver of male-female commitment is parents’ care for the babies they make together… the utter irrationality of the federal government’s vaulting sexual expressionism over religious freedom in the name of women’s equality and happiness.

And make no mistake about it, the backlash against fingering sexualityism is real. Salon featured headline: “Birth Control’s Worst Enemy.” … I am the worst kind of self-loathing, woman hating, celibate-male-mouthpiece prude, who wouldn’t know good sex if it slapped her on the face…

George H. Kubeck, This column originally appeared at Public Discourse. Check the whole letter.