who woulda thunk it

Some people fifty years ago
 even hoped that the new freedoms,
and technological controls,
would stabilize marriage itself.


The 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae,
which also reaches its 50^th anniversary this year,
went on to become widely despised across the decades
 precisely for predicting otherwise –
 precisely for insisting
that the revolution would hurt romance and family,
 and end up licensing predatory men
and malignant governments.


                                                              Mary Eberstadt






when logic invades the irrational......






















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