[Finny]

Dear, it would be a wasted effort. If you cannot perceive the badness and weakness in loudly pronouncing what the Palins and Bristol and Levi should do and should have done, or what they shouldn't do and shouldn't have done, with regard to personal, private affairs that truly are none of our business, just as any moral lapses (short of murder or theft) manifested in your own children that have the potential of burdening society as much as themselves are none of my business -- well, then you're enough of a Church Lady to totally miss the point.

And I think indeed, you happily miss the point because it is more gratifying for you to do so. That's okay, I still love you -- but don't expect me to condone what you do, anymore than I condone single motherhood. More than anything, I encourage the Christian wisdom of minding your own business.

[Philo-Junius]

You don’t believe what you just wrote, or you wouldn’t have written it.

If nothing short of murder and theft is of interest to nonparticipants this whole thread should have been beneath your notice.

That it was not indicates fully how much you believe in the power and appropriateness of social sanction—you just don’t like it aimed at anyone linked to someone you like, that is all.