Interesting to see how the Palin supporters spin this one
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.