Stephan:   This is a good assessment of where the country stands on the sexual issues that seem to obsess the Theocratic Right. Increasingly I find the Right's arguments bizarrely archaic. I was speaking today with several people in their 20-30s, and asked them about their views on this. I have been doing this in grocery stores, gas stations, anywhere a conversation opportunity arises. Almost to a person both men and women tell me that they consider same-sex marriage a non-issue, contraception a given, and abortion a difficult but sometimes necessary option. We will see in the election, but I think this fixation on sex that dominates our public political conversation will prove a painful mistake by the Republicans.