Try it some time

If I had a daughter at Wellesley, I’d be miffed by Clinton’s (probably inadvertent) suggestion that one afternoon a week of sexual abstinence would be a new experience for her (“Try it sometime”). But Hillary correctly understands the importance to her core supporters of unfettered sexual liberty. The Leftist view of emancipated female sexuality is, by an irony of history, largely congruent with the view of women the same Leftists would attribute to the misogynist redneck of popular imagination. What for the misogynist is an occasion of gloating disparagement, however, is for the feminist an occasion for celebration. As Elizabeth Anscombe saw, this points to a large chasm that divides progressivist thought from Christianity full-stop: “Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.” Hillary’s pleasantry about the by-gone dorm days is a signal that — regardless of the verbal compromises political expedience may require in the months to come — her heart is with those who’ve said their definitive good-bye to Christianity.

Diogenes on Hillary. Read the whole thing.