Among the hundred-or-so reasons why Rick Santorum will never get the G.O.P. nomination is this: He's against contraception. Never mind that when you practice contraception, you prevent a lot of horrible diseases. And never mind that you prevent unwanted babies, including those that could be born to couples that already have all they can feed or care for. He's against contraception because it leads to people having sex for the wrong reasons.
There are a lot of quotes where he's said as much. No one has dragged them out into the open because no one thought he was much of a factor in the current presidential race. But I guess we're about to hear a lot about it and about some of his other odd views of morality, and that'll be the end of Rick Santorum.
That'll be a shame in a way. It would have fun to have the next presidential election be about whether the government should be dictating how and why people have sex.