From Harper's Weekly:
Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden. Republican congressmen were attempting to define a twenty-week-old fetus as a "pain-capable unborn child," and the Department of Health and Human Services refused to ensure that its reports on abstinence for young people were factually and scientifically accurate.
We are a nation devoted to symbolism over action.