There’s a country song about this. “I’m so much cooler on the Internet” or something like that. Reading many threads I notice that there are people who read nothing but the Bible all day long, have never had sex outside of marriage, keep fit and trim all day long (on any thread related to weight), have never sinned in their lives. At least according to the posts I read when it comes to big discussions like this.
I am not sure that its the Christians that are getting upset - several of the conservative christian posters have been her strongest defenders today. Mainly the poeple getting mad are those who didn’t like Palin in the first place. There are also a few posters who seem to be on a twisted contraception crusade.
There are several country songs about it, at least, sort of. Carter Family, “Single Girl, Married Girl,” and Loretta Lynn, “The Pill” and “One’s on the Way” come to mind.
And by that I meant, lots of country songs have addressed issues of gender, marriage, childbirth, kin and hard choices - probably none so much as Lynn’s.
I may be partial though.
“But here in Topeka the flies are a buzzin’
The dog is a barkin’ and the floor needs a scrubbin’
One needs a spankin’ and one needs a huggin’
Lord one’s on the way”
Props to Shel.