Hugh Hefner Chimes In On GOP Race, Decries ‘War Against Sex’

[Tx4obama]

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Patrick Gavin at POLITICO points out that Hefner “doesn’t frequently take to its pages to wax poetic about one thing or another.” In his editorial, “The War Against Sex,” Hefner writes “repressed conservatives” are “pounding on America’s bedroom door.”

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“For months I have watched the rhetoric building. Last October, in an interview with an evangelical blogger, Rick Santorum promised to defund birth control on the grounds that contraception is ‘a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.’ … Ron Paul was no better, believing that the birth control pill did not cause immorality but that immorality creates the problem of wanting to use the pill. Mitt Romney vowed to see a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and to overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Noting Foster Friess’ controversial remark (“Back in my days, (women) used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives”) and the Sandra Fluke/Rush Limbaugh incident, Hefner said, “Fifty years of sexual freedom vanished in a sound bite.”

He concluded: “If these zealots have their way, our hard-won sexual liberation — women’s rights, reproductive rights and rights to privacy — lie in peril. We won’t let that happen. … Welcome to the new sexual revolution.”

Full post here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/hugh-hefner-chimes-in-on-gop-race-decries-war-against-sex/

[CrispyQ]

1. Is it crazy to think Hef might have sway with some right wing males?

[tanyev]

2. If you've got any dirt on them, Hef, now's the time.

[NNRA]

3. War on Sex?

That is the saddest war of all.

[CBHagman]

4. The GOP ticked off the feminists AND Hefner.

Give it up, boys (Well, most of them are boys...).