Why are the US Catholic Bishops exerting so much energy and money and time on the matter of contraception, with no similarly public cries of outrage against the death penalty, state-sponsored torture, or the two preemptive wars in which the US has involved itself for fully a decade?
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons is a Master of Divinity student, concentrating in Christian Social Ethics, at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Follow him on Twitter @guthriegf.