What would Jesus do? I am really struggling to reconcile the two Sarah Palins that I have been presented with. Runs a campaign to finish the bridge to nowhere; wants to stop the bridge to nowhere (but still keep the federal money for the project!) Thinks pregnant teens should be denied abortions; refuses to fund transitional program for teen mothers. Runs with McCain on the 'Country First' platform; belongs to a seperatist movement calling for Alaska's independence. Says she wants to cut government spending; raised taxes, spending and debt while Mayor of Wasilla. Says she is a maverick shunning lobbyist and Washington insiders and fighting pork-barrel spending; hired a lobbyist to represent Wasilla in Washington to obtain earmarks for millions of dollars of unnecessary spending for Wasilla. Says she is a God-fearing Christian that supports abstinence-only education; see picture below. Would the real Sarah Palin please stand up?
There was a picture here, but I have removed it because there are questions as to it's veracity. Not only that though. The picture was a huge mistake. It detracted from my message and was placed there intially for shock value. (Ouch, I hate admitting that!) So instead of the picture I am amending my post to clarify the point of the above post.
The point of my blog post had nothing to do with the picture, which I regret using. My point is that Sarah Palin is a set of very disturbing contradictions. She doesn't add up. Plain and simple, she is not consistent and therefore untrustworthy.
If you add to that the fact that she believes the Iraq war is a holy war, that schools should teach creationism instead of (or even alongside) science, and that she does not believe women should have the right to choose even in cases of incest or rape, I can't come to any other conclusion than she is a religious whack job.
I don't think people should be restricted in their choice of religion or persecuted because of it. However, when it comes to policy, the religious beliefs of our representatives and executors should not interfere with the upholding of the constitution or our Declaration's preamble guaranteeing "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." She has already been documented to have attempted to deny free speech via book banning. I am, myself, a very religious person. However, my religious beliefs are based on the life and works of Jesus and other great teachers. I read in the Bible that Christ sought to include as many as possible and promoted a type of redemption that was grounded in loving and caring for one another. At no time did he attempt to uphold the powers that be in their wickedness. He demonstrated that love and sacrifice, caring and forgiveness could overthrow the power of wickedness one person at time. Nor did he attempt to guarantee financial wealth to those who believed in his path. On the contrary he says that if you want to be like Him you have to give all of your possessions away and trust God to take care of you like he does the Lilies of the Field. But Sarah Palin and other 'fundamentalists' would have you believe that Jesus was all about making the rich more powerful, the poor even poorer, and the sick a hopeless lot--the exact opposite of Christ's own life and words.
As for her snipes regarding community organizers not having responsibilities or the ability to affect real change, tell that to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and all the men of the Boston Tea Party. Community organizers, the whole lot.
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I don't care that she was hockey mom, and I don't care that she dressed slutty (lawd knows I've been known to do it myself); but I do care that she doesn't believe in science, and I do care that she doesn't belive women have the right to make decisions about their bodies, particularly after rape and incest when those decisions have been ripped from them anyway. I do care that she has some weirdness about the state of Alaska not being part of the US when she's white trash (and yes I have been known to identify with white trash). It's not like she's Inuit and had the state stolen from her like others in Alaska. I do care that I know nothing about her leadership ability. And I definitely care that people actually seem to find her appealing, that she is bringing life to the Republicans. It's extremely frightening.
Just to be clear, my point about the picture isn't that she dressed in a provocative way. It's that dressing that way is a direct contradiction to what she professes herself to be and the 'values' that she tries to press on others. The point of my post is to show that she is a set of disturbing contradictions that do not end with the ones I have cited.
I think it has been confirmed that Palin herself was not a member of that group that called for Alaska's separation from the U.S. - it was her husband that was a member.
Thank you Craig for that correction. However, she did make speeches at their events and was involved in the cause.
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