I am not surprised by this from Governor Palin. She is after all a conservative in the Goldwater/Reagan tradition. Famously, Goldwater said “you do not have to be straight to shoot straight” and famously, Reagan was crucial to defeating the ballot to exclude homosexuals from public schools in CA. People forget that Governor Palin vetoed attempts to rescind the rights of same-sex couples in Alaska. One does not have to believe that homosexual behaviour is “good” to do this. What one does have to understand is that what religious conviction, scripture and tradition regards as “sinful” should not necessarily be regarded as a “crime” by the civil state. Toleration is not the same as sanction. Sarah Palin, wisely,has a clear grasp of these distinctions. However, on homesexuality I believe she has a bootom line. Marrage is for a man and a woman, not otherwise. Period.
She has got the theological/political balance right.
I'm a big supporter of homesexuality. I also support hotelsexuality under the right circumstances. Not so sure about holysexuality, though.
But if Palin issues a "bootom call" on any of them, I'm sure it will be done with the utmost taste and discretion.
Nonsense. The very people who wrote our Constitution, codified laws in their States making Sodomy a capital crime. At Common Law, Sodomy was considered a crime so perverse, so degenerate, so evil, that it wasn't even named. It was referred to as "The crime against nature." Homosexuality is an evil. Its as evil as one can get. We don't tolerate it, and the civil government shouldn't allow such an affront to The Creator to be permitted.
Days of Noah indeed. Not much time left.