Much better to be casually offensive at a pretty low level. For instance, dear reader, if I was able to convincingly argue that I wrote ‘God doesn’t exist and each world religion is a tool by which the terminally stupid are controlled’ either as a statement of belief or in the furtherance of a logical scientific objective, such as driving more blog hits and advertising revenue, it would be tough to convict me.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, (the rebranded Holy Office of the Inquisition) appears to have rather spectacularly trapped itself in its own burning strawman, in its latest Dignitas Personae.  By arguing that taking the morning-after pill is essentially an act of intent to terminate an embryo, the Holy See appears to have [...]