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Andrew Sullivan To Matthews: Obama Standing Up Against Those Who Control ‘The Sex Lives Of People’

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Newsweek / Daily Beast scribe Andrew Sullivan visited Hardball Tuesday night, where he discussed “The Politics of Sex,” his cover story for the latest issue of the news magazine.

The fight over birth control isn’t one Barack Obama was looking to have, Andrews told host Chris Matthews, and as been, in fact, one he’s been trying to avoid. But he finally reached a point, Sullivan added, where he’s made the choice to take on those within the Catholic Church for whom “no issue seems to be more important than controlling the sex lives of other people.”

RELATED: Jon Stewart On Birth Control Opponents: ‘Liberty For Employers, Employees Can Go F*ck Themselves’

The Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne, meanwhile, says that this is a fight Obama wins if the topic at hand is contraception, not religious freedom.

On the matter of religious freedom, however, Sullivan reminded viewers that, during Vatican II, a Pope-appointed commission had indeed approved the Pill, even though this decision was soon overturned. Either way, he added — it’s probably best not to get into fights with the religious if one can help it. Good advice for Presidents, even better advice for your Valentine’s Day dates today. That said, this whole debate gives fuel to none other than Rick Santorum, particularly against Romney and RomneyCare. How devious! Ish.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    A huge, throbbing “THANKS” to the merciful Dictator in Chief.

    -The OBAMA Oath: Deliberately HARM. Then, LIE about it. The media has your back.-

  • Anonymous

    you’re just mad that you cons cant find a viable candidate….

  • Ben

    I like you.

    You’re crazy.

    Please keep posting….thanks.

  • Anonymous

    Yawn.

    Do you people never get tired of trotting out this paranoid and delusional talking point? It makes you SOUND as crazy as your tin foil hat makes you LOOK.

  • Anonymous

    Andrew looks like he’s wearing one of those Groucho Marx disguises.  Is that his “intellectual” look?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Andrew Sullivan? LOL
    He’s the Media Twin to John McCain!

    Does Sullivan have a daughter too?
    lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    Following, is the complete and inclusive list of the areas of Americans daily lives that are safe from the tyrannical rules of 0bamacare:

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  • Anonymous

     actually, some of them really are that crudely deluded.  some of them even think Obama’s the Antichrist.

  • Anonymous

     is John Mccain now considered a liberal?

  • Anonymous

    If OBAMO wins re-election, everyone who utterly despises him now will magically start loving him.

    That second term sure will be Cake.

  • Anonymous

    Enough about this…….let’s talk about Sarah Palin faking her pregnancy!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I heard from the libs that the GOP was forcing Kroger, Walt-mart, Sams Club, Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid,  Costo, etc. to shut down. Yeah that must be true because the libs say the GOP is denying women access to contraceptives.

  • Anonymous

    A very astute analysis by Andrew Sullivan.

    Thanks Alex for sharing this.

  • Anonymous

    gosh, I haven’t seen that one before.  You must be more “wordly”.  Perhaps your trip to Athens strengthened your resolve.

  • Anonymous

    Well cupcake, we have nothing compared to your stellar feller.  You know the one that promised you the world, but couldn’t even deliver a pizza.  

  • Anonymous

    Andrew Sullivan To Matthews: Obama Standing Up Against Those Who Control ‘The Sex Lives Of People’

    And at the same time Obama, along with fellow slave owners in the DNC, is reaching into your pocket to snatch your wallet.

  • Centrist79

    In the wake of Whitney Houstons death, I ask you please go to rehab and get clean and sober.

  • Anonymous

    Who in the DNC are slave owners? You mean those who manage the volunteers? Guess what, the RNC has those as well.

  • Anonymous

    Are you talking about Herman Cain?

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  • Anonymous

    I read your post and got the message. Obama is a Muslim Hitler atheist who is also Satan. Makes sense and sounds totally reasonable. I bet your smarts have really taken you places in life. 

  • JAMES PAINTER

    Sullivan despises the Christian religion in general, and the Catholic Church specifically. Matthews the idiot plays rights into that slimes hand. Dionne just plays the doddering old fool like Helen Thomas.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Man, you whackos and your nutso conspiracy theories. You nuts stub your toe in the morning and blame Obama.

  • Anonymous

    There are reports from anonymous sources that Mathews and Sullivan don’t like each other as they are upset that the other gets greater tingles.  They are like two teenage girls going after the same guy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    You lie!

    Sullivan is a devout Catholic but disagrees with their bizarre need to control people`s sex lives.

  • Anonymous

    Have compassion for exman.  He lost has no job, has had family issues and is bitter about his life.  I wish exman the best in his recovery.

  • Anonymous

    I liked him but he was a bit too jive to be president.

  • Anonymous

    No, Andrew Sullivan does not have a daughter, unless he managed to impregnate his boyfriend.

    Strange, though, that gays, in spite of their constant and unrelenting bashing and hate of straights, must rely on straights to replenish their ranks.

  • Anonymous

    “…their constant and unrelenting bashing and hate of straights…”

    Man, you must be the stupidest person posting on mediaite. What an astoundingly ignorant remark.

  • Anonymous

    Well, exGOPman, I feel humbled by your great wisdom, kindness, compassion, love and your typical liberal resolve to resist personal attacks.

  • Anonymous

    Sullivan is much given to clever word play, sophistry and just plain dissing of historical facts.  The Papal Commission set up to advise Pope Paul VI on the issues of birth regulation did not ‘make decisions’, which were subsequently ‘overturned’.  It was purely advisory and the Pope rejected its advice and upheld what the Church has consistently taught about the connnection bwteen sexual acts and the transmission of live.  It is not difficult to see why Sullivan must necessarily rage against this position.  If each sexual act must be open to the transmission of life as affirmed by Humanae Vitae,  any theological justifcation for homosexuality or ‘gay marriage’ is destroyed, since homosexual acts are by definition, closed to life.

  • Anonymous

    Still waiting for the Dem’s to find one!

  • Anonymous

    Not quite. We think his talents reached it’s pinnacle at community-organizing. He’s obviously in way over his head at leading a country.

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