Something I don’t get about all the recent coverage of the 2,000-year-old breaking news that the Catholic Church still opposes contraception in general and the use of condoms in particular.

When somebody complains about the content of a vulgar pop-music recording, or the content of an offensive television program, or the content of a depraved movie — and there is a superabundance from which to choose — the inevitable response from the self-satisfied Left is: If you don’t like it, change the channel. If you don’t like Eminem’s foul mouth, don’t buy his records. If you don’t approve of the sadism in Saw XXIV, don’t buy a ticket. They raise the specter of censorship at any opportunity, even when what is happening is not censorship but criticism.

Shouldn’t they also be saying, for the sake of intellectual consistency: If you don’t like what the Catholic Church teaches, you don’t have to be Catholic? How is it that the profane is treated as sacred, but the sacred is open for profaning? Memo to Kevin de Cock and the rest of the condom-consecrators — if you don’t like what’s on Channel B16, you can flip. There are a gazillion religious congregations in the world — change the channel.