I thought that was a hacker...?
I suspect that McVain's "handlers" were responsible for that, not Palin.
When you cut through all the verbiage, the bedrock point of this piece is Sarah’s pro-life position is more squishy now that she’s no longer a Roman Catholic, which she was born into, but a church-hopping Protestant...
And THAT more than anything else is why she didn’t stress it as much as the writer wished she had stressed it during the campaign.
Let me say, if the writer just wanted her to stress it more just because of it’s importance to him and certain others, that’s one thing.
But if he wanted her to stress it more, thinking it would’ve helped the McCain-Palin ticket win, that’s very different.
Of course it wouldn’t have, because hammering away at that particular issue wouldn’t have helped people go vote for them who already knew and didn’t turn out.
And that’s what we had.
The Dems held a turnout election and the Republicans held an election.
Studies show a few mil Conservative voters didn’t vote.
There’s no way Sarah harping on pro-life more would have stirred ‘em when they were bound to have known already about the Supreme Court picks at stake and Obama and Dems devotion to pro-death.
You don’t need harping. You just need to decide, do I vote at all when I’m unhappy with the choice of McCain, given what’s at stake if the other guy wins.
Which is what they decided.
Sarah has demonstrated her pro-life stance simply by living it. While she has spoken about the subject, I think that her actions speak more loudly than any words could.
People are not going to see the truth about abortion until we find a truly charismatic and powerful rhetorician to enchant them with a call to righteousness.
Bull!
The Assemblies of God has a very definitive stance on abortion.
Abortion. The Assemblies of God views the practice of abortion as an evil that has been inflicted upon millions of innocent babies and that will threaten millions more in the years to come. Abortion is a morally unacceptable alternative for birth control, population control, sex selection, and elimination of the physically and mentally handicapped. Certain parts of the world are already experiencing serious population imbalances as a result of the systematic abortion of female babies. The advocacy and practice of so-called partial birth abortion of babies is particularly heinous.
From:
http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/Position_Papers/pp_downloads/pp_4196_sanctity_human_life.pdf
last week we celebrated the birth of a child born to an unwed young woman.
not a comparable birth, I know, but Mary was betrothed, not married, by God’s choice!
A priest friend from Alaska and I were visiting and he happened to mention that the message Governor Palin sent at the dedication of a monument to the unborn blew all others out of the water, including the bishop’s. He wondered if it had to do with her being a pregnant mother, at the time. He said it was very beautiful.
It’s unfair to criticize Palin for “leaving”the Catholic church when her family “left” the church when she was in gradeschool...
Knowing the church problems in northern Idaho, (where the Pius X church is strong) maybe they left because they couldn’t find Jesus in the Catholic church.
One of the “side effects” of Vatican II is that it pushed a lot of Christians out of the Catholic churches in liberal dioceses and parishes.
If I hadn’t been aware of the catholic (universal) church, I too would have left...but when you have lived overseas, and know history, you realize the “fads” come and go, but the power of the spirit in the church remains...