The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I would like to thank Reverend Karl Koch for providing me with a hearty chuckle this morning as I read his Columbus Dispatch letter-to-the-editor, entitled, "Cartoon lies about sexual abstinence" (http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/09/29/1-cartoon-lies.html). The letter reads as follows: "An editorial cartoon is just that, a cartoon. The cartoon by Pat Bagley in Wednesday’s Dispatch portrayed the 'slogan' about a faith-based, abstinence-only birth-control program producing a pregnant woman. I defy the cartoonist to show me one single case of a pregnancy when the person followed this program. I know of one, Mary, the mother of our Lord. Following this program requires strength, persistence, knowledge of the truth, strength from God and the support of family and of Christian friends. The problem is not within an abstinence program but within our culture, which demeans abstinence, self-responsibility and growth to maturity in order that ...