At least, that's the argument the conservative Family Research Council seems to be making. In an email sent to FRC members, Tony Perkins attacked Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's recent decision to cut off funding for abstinence only education -- which we know doesn't work. Interestingly enough, FRC is concerned about how this will affect the market, "The decision ... affects nearly 15 nonprofit programs ... Virginia's contraceptive-based, pro-adolescent-sex education programs will not be affected. In fact, most of them stand to profit substantially from the lack of competition. The most obvious beneficiary ... Planned Parenthood."

Wait, I'm confused. FRC is shocked that a program that is proved to not work is getting funding withdrawn from it and is claiming that the group that will profit is a nonprofit? Firstly, if they're so concerned with market values, then they shouldn't be so surprised when an ineffective program becomes unpopular and therefore gets less funding. Secondly, Planned Parenthood doesn't just do comprehensive sex education. They also provide prenatal care and regular pap smears to low income women where access to such health care is virtually nonexistent. In other words, Planned Parenthood provides a valuable service. Instead of subsidizing ineffective programs, we should work on funding programs that do work. Don't conseratives hate it when economics works against them?

An email from the Family Research Council Action yesterday tells twentysomethings that the important thing is that we all get married. Now. Or end up alone forever.

Apparently, in reporting on recently released Census data, “Far too many reporters are overlooking the fact that only a small fraction of Americans over 30 (12.5%) never get married.” Obviously, the crazy liberal media doesn’t realize how ostracized single people over 30 are—if you’re not married by then, it’s time to stock up on kitty litter and eschew society for the rest of your miserable, cat lady existence.

FRC Action also reports that

Nearly 75% of "family households" are headed by a married couple. In fact, married-couple families are more than double the number of male-headed families, female-headed families, and unmarried-partner households--combined (49.7% to 22.5%)! So don't count out marriage!

A very sophisticated everybody’s-doing-it argument. And the picture that accompanies it is priceless: whitebread bride and groom gaze lovingly at each other, and the URL titles the scene “NORMAL.”