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Evangelicals rally behind Palin after pregnancy news
CNN ^ | 9/1/08 | Rebecca Sinderbrand

Posted on 09/01/2008 5:42:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Key evangelical leaders rallied to Sarah Palin's support Monday amid news that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was having a child.

Sarah Palin confirmed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

"Before, they were excited about her, with the Down syndrome baby," conservative, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said. "But now with this, they are over the moon. It reinforces the fact that this family lives its pro-life values."

Palin and John McCain oppose abortion and have supported promoting abstinence in schools -- which would seem to make Bristol Palin's pregnancy an inconveniently timed development.

But she is keeping the child, a fact that could make the Alaska governor -- whose candidacy has been enthusiastically embraced by evangelicals who regard her as one of their own -- even more popular among that key GOP voting bloc. Watch more on Palin's announcement »

"Fortunately, Bristol is following her mother and father's example of choosing life in the midst of a difficult situation," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said. "We are committed to praying for Bristol and her husband-to-be and the entire Palin family as they walk through a very private matter in the eyes of the public."

Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely.

"This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don't get it," Land said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; cnn; cnna; maccain; mccain; obama; palin; palinfamily
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To: truthluva

...but I myself don’t think abstinence education can really work without a religious framework.

The solution is to get out of the public schools and not try to patch it up with secular abstinence or try to push for a “moment of silence” instead of real prayer to a real Deity from a real bible.


101 posted on 09/01/2008 8:08:28 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Biden, it's Sarahcuda, not Sarahcutie. Dork!)
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To: Defiant

this wasn’t a one night stand. It seems they were together for at least a year.


102 posted on 09/01/2008 8:09:54 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Biden, it's Sarahcuda, not Sarahcutie. Dork!)
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To: buccaneer81

I have two adult daughters that got through the teen years without getting pregnant. I sure as bleepity bleep bleep, doesn’t make me a better parent than someone that has a child that ends up pregnant.

This issue isn’t just making me like team McCain better. I am actually proud of the majority of posters here. There are a lot of people who have children outside of marriage for what ever reason, it is nice to see that Conservatives don’t throw them out of the tent.


103 posted on 09/01/2008 8:12:35 PM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs (Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
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To: YdontUleaveLibs

I guess the decisions wasn’t “above Bristols pay grade” !!!!!!


104 posted on 09/01/2008 8:13:55 PM PDT by gswilder
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To: ari-freedom

I didn’t think it was a one night stand. I had heard him referred to as her boyfriend. Still, with 17 year olds who are planning to go to college and make their way in life, adoption is often the best way to go. It is a deeply personal decision, and I would not pretend to tell anyone what they should do in that situation. Except, I will always tell them not to have an abortion. That would be murder.


105 posted on 09/01/2008 8:17:36 PM PDT by Defiant (The Obamessiah creed: There was a pedophile named Mohammed, and Obama is his messenger.)
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To: gswilder

Bristol is more qualified than NObama to be President. Well except for her age.


106 posted on 09/01/2008 8:21:08 PM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs (Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
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To: Owen
The target constituency does not want a zealot. Don’t help the left paint her as one.

Millions of evangelical Christians who voted for Bush have not been satisfied with McCain as our nominee, and I'm one of them. Yeah, he's been a dependable pro-life vote in the Senate, but he's not an evangelical Christian or Catholic so he has been suspected of voting pro-life just for political expediency and not because of any moral principles. And his pro-life voting record and his very difficult Navy wartime service were about the only favorable qualities that many evangelicals, including me, could see in him. But now many of those evangelical Bush voters who would probably have stayed home on Nov 4 will turn out and vote for the McCain/Palin ticket primarily because of Governor Palin's courageous and proper handling of her daughter's out of wedlock pregnancy.

I'll gladly take the 25-30 million evangelical vote bloc any day of the week in exchange for the so-called moderates who actually are 95% liberal and 5% moderate, and who almost always end up voting for the Democrat anyway no matter what a Republican candidate does to cater to them.

107 posted on 09/01/2008 8:22:19 PM PDT by epow (Choose ye this day whom you will serve.......but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.)
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To: epow

McCain was the one who picked Palin. It is a risk for him and certainly not the safe choice. He could have picked Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson or the very successful but social liberal Governor Lingle from Hawaii and appeal to the fiscal and national security conservatives


108 posted on 09/01/2008 8:41:16 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Biden, it's Sarahcuda, not Sarahcutie. Dork!)
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To: ari-freedom
He could have picked Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson

yawner... KBH would not have rallied the base... she's too old--meaning she's part of the establishment, and she's not conservative enough...

109 posted on 09/01/2008 8:48:32 PM PDT by latina4dubya (self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: DemonDeac
Unmarried minors getting pregnant doesn’t put me over the moon.

I'll assume you aren't being deliberately obtuse. What puts evangelicals "over the moon" is not that the daughter got pregnant out of wedlock - that is an unfortunate choice made by Bristol and her boyfriend. What excites conservatives is that in Sarah Palin, we finally have a politician who truly lives her principles, even when it is not politically expedient. Those are a rare breed. She puts life first, not just as a political slogan, but acts it out in her own life and family.

110 posted on 09/01/2008 8:50:57 PM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: DallasBiff

Dear Fellow FRs:

I went to Office Depot today...They had a sale on DVDs...You know stuff that no one wants...2 for 1?

In this discount bin was John McCain’s life story.. Faith of My Father...I bought it...

I watched this tonight and thought...

My God, we do not know this man. We have no clue...yet we all need to learn from him.

Go to Office Deport tomorrow and buy the DVD... 9 dollars for two...Watch it and pass it on....

I’m sick to death at the small people still on this forum who continue to bad mouth McCain...I’ve come around... He’s a great American and we should be all proud that he is our candidate...

I have 60 days to promote this man...I’m tired of hearing the negatives from the bloggers here....You know who they are...

Let’s work to get our ticket elected...


111 posted on 09/01/2008 9:01:14 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Mr. Smith is coming back to Washington in the name of Sarah Palin.)
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To: Hildy
They look at evangelicals like they are all “church lady” types.

Church lady much like Dana Carvey as an actor is now a cozy SNL memory in our culture.

The new "church lady" is politically correct fascism and an obsession with race , gender, sexual preference and to a degree any religion besides responsible Christianity.

You want a finger pointed at you by the self righteous sanctimonious amongst us just rattle those cages.

112 posted on 09/01/2008 9:08:02 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama/Pol Pot 2008)
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To: Owen

The Dems have to run from what they really are to win.

We don’t.


113 posted on 09/01/2008 9:08:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama/Pol Pot 2008)
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To: wardaddy

You are correct, sir.


114 posted on 09/01/2008 9:13:28 PM PDT by Hildy ("We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.")
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To: epow

The problem with your long description of how now folks will come out and they would not have otherwise is The Polls Would Show It If It Was So. They did not flip to a McCain lead the day of her nomination. Or the next day. Or the next.

It’s not so. There are not millions of new voters that are going to carry the flag to victory as onward Christian soldiers. They aren’t there or the polls would show them. The professionals know where the votes are and they are in the middle. Stop helping the left move her away from the middle where the votes are.


115 posted on 09/01/2008 9:35:00 PM PDT by Owen
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To: DemonDeac

The most important thing about youth is to survive its tests. My favorite verse about tests: “He knoweth the way that I take. When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.”


116 posted on 09/01/2008 9:35:17 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Prokopton
I don't think "mistake" is the right word.

Actually it is a more right word. Getting pregnant outside of mariage is a sin and thus is always a mistake. But I must give the daughter credit for doing the right thing and marrying the father. The Palins are dealing with the problem in the true conservative manner. And in the true Christian manner as well

God bless the Palin family. They are a refreshing example in a nutty world of how it is possible to live the values.

117 posted on 09/01/2008 9:45:23 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Oh, good one. That’s going to leave a mark!


118 posted on 09/01/2008 10:16:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: DallasBiff
Don't get baited by this stuff, folks. Many families have this problem and will be able to relate.

The girl and her bo made a foolish error in judgment. They are taking the correct course to rectify it (marriage). Case closed. Folks are wondering, "What's the big deal? Why is this being repeated ad nauseum?"

Consider the # of leg-crossing news prompt readers reporting this for the last 16 hours who have concieved a child and aborted it, and decide for yourselves which is worse, conception -> marriage, or conception -> abortion. One case involves fornication, the other, fornication + murder. In that light:

Why do you give them any credibility?

119 posted on 09/01/2008 10:31:18 PM PDT by Lexinom (Sarah Palin: more executive experience than any candidate on either ticket.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
I, too, have teenage daughters, none pregnant, but I don't consider myself better than other parents, or cast stones at those whose girls got pregnant. I consider myself lucky, and thank the man upstairs that so far my girls have remembered what I taught them. It only takes one little slip. Bristol Palin found that out the hard way, and will serve my girls as a reminder of that.

It's a little late to worry about whether she should have or shouldn't have. The deed is done. The good news is that she's making the right choices after finding out she's pregnant.

120 posted on 09/02/2008 12:13:49 AM PDT by mavfin (Personal freedom, personal responsibility)
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