Posted on 10/04/2008 6:29:13 PM PDT by Krankor
Sarah Palin may be the heroine of the religious right, but Rev. Gene Straatmeyer vividly recalls a public run-in he once had with the now Republican vice presidential candidate over clergy support for a crackdown on bars. It was August 1996, just weeks before Palin's election as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska. And Straatmeyer, a local Presbyterian minister and head of two church coalitions, testified at a City Council hearing for a measure to shorten the traditional 5 a.m. last call by a few hours.
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More handiwork of the winged monkeys. 1996? What was Obama or Biden doing in 1996????
I get “page not found” when I try your link.
“Of course, if she had voted to reduce the bars’ hours, we’d be reading an article about how she imposed her evangelical temperance on the citizens of Wasilla.”
Exactly. She chose the correct path IMO. She let the bars make the decision. Pro-business, pro-freedom. Exactly as it should be.
Color me disappointed. LoL!
People drink in Alaska?
I thought Alaska was a right wing Christian Theocracy (at least that’s what they told me at DK and DU).
Well, Governor Palin shot down in flames another myth: that normal people who take their religion and moral standards seriously, neither have to wear their religion on their sleeve, nor lose sight of the fact that, in our system, the religious and secular universes can coexist, separately and peacefully, thankyouverymuch!
She really does keep her religious views to herself and doesn’t allow them to interfere with her governance.
This is called “rational thought”. You can hold religion in your heart and accept and believe that your religious beliefs don’t belong imposing on the freedom of others.
That is an idea the left just cannot grasp.
that’s the type of person mccain wants for the SC
That's because their liberalism is their religion.
You know I know a local minister who is a big religious conservative and he had a disagreement with our secularist mayor about banning alcohol on the Boise river, with the miniister believing it should be legal to drink and the liberal mayor disagreeing.
Gee whiz!
30 investigators and lawyers?
The mountain moved and produced a mouse.
Sarah must be the cleanest politician of all time. They can’t find anything!!
It is to laugh.
The left has no feel for faith and I presume they think we conservatives are shallow and pious. But what they don’t get is that we are certainly against killing babies and redefining marriage. Sara Palin is a rock and very gifted and reasonable. Unlike Obama who is a fake and a fraud pretending to be religious, but liberals know that, which is why they accept him and reject Sara.
“She chose the correct path IMO. She let the bars make the decision. Pro-business, pro-freedom. Exactly as it should be.”
Yes, indeed. A conservative does not “crackdown” on bars. That is something a Social-Engineering-Nanny-Stater does. Thank heavens Sarah Palin knows the difference between the two!
The Tribune is losing money like mad and they waste two reporters and two expense accounts on this tripe?
I may never stop being amazed at how these hit pieces evaporated for a week or so. I guess she really did win the debate.
Of course you mean we can live peacefully, but unfortunately liberals can't do that because they are so filled with hatred towards the religious right.
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