Curt and abrupt with callers who don't measure up, she is quick to impart not only her opinions but abrasive and even abusive commentary as well. Dr. Laura's intolerance is not confined merely to name-calling. When she makes her marriage vows, and her husband has sex with someone else, let's see if she thinks that this philosophy works. Called moralistic and dogmatic by her detractors, Dr. Laura, a convert to Orthodox Judaism, stridently asserts that abortions are murder, sex outside of marriage is a sin, no one should divorce except in the case of abuse, and that mothers should stay home with their children. The accusation that Dr. Laura is moralistic is hard to dispute.
Unholy sex is everything else.
Reinforcing this advice, her Web site has had links to magazines and organizations such as At Home Mother magazine and Full Time Parents.org. Being married is not only the sole permissible ticket to sex but apparently to mental stability as well. In August 2000, a man who needed a trustworthy executor for his will called in to her radio program to ask Dr. Laura if she thought he should name his sister. When Dr. Laura learned that the sister was not married, she advised the man to pick a married person. A single woman, she claimed, would be too unfocused and unstable.