Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke to Katie Couric about homosexuality yesterday, and while she didn’t treat the subject as something despicable (like most Republicans), she did call being gay a “decision” and a “choice.”
“But what you’re talking about, I think, (is) my position on homosexuality and (whether) you can pray it away. And you know, I don’t know what prayers are worthy of being prayed…. But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay, and I love her dearly. And she is not my ‘gay friend,’ she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice I would have made. But I am not going to judge people.”
While I will admit that deciding whether to have a relationship is a choice, I think the evidence at least suggests that being same-sex attracted is not. I guess none of this should be surprising from someone who refuses to accept scientific evidence over religious/personal belief, as demonstrated when she stated previously that man and dinosaur walked on earth at the same time.
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Oh, I am SO FCKING SURE she has a gay friend!!! Not with those convictions, you don’t.
I call bullshit.
Sorry for being so judgmental!
Well, I have mixed emotions about the dinosaur issue. Because, I believe, in the book of Job it talks about creatures, some believe to be a referrence to dinosaurs. Or at least that is how I was raised.
I have read and watch documentaries about the issue and seem kind of confused about how it can be and I guess I just trust that there might not have been all the types of dinosaurs but some had to survive. Science does show that some land creatures did seek refuge in the ocean/waters and evolved unto a different type. I don’t know.
But her response I can relate too.
Also, the opinion that she expressed about “gay” may not have been a definitive I agree or I am opposed but I think at least she shows a openness to respect whatever choice a adult makes about their personal life. I just wonder if that also applies to Bill Clinton’s choices? lol
Many adults make choices to be with a certain partner/mate. I may not agree with their choice, but it doesn’t matter. It is not my life. I don’t agree with the people my sister’s date but that is only because I am not them. I am not attracted to the same people they are. Likewise, they don’t approve of my choices. In the end, it is not my business what they choice to do in or with their personal life. Just as my choice is none of theirs. Of course, I did not come to this realization overnight. lol Wisdom comes with age.
BTW: Brian & Alan-I have not forgotten ya’ll. I have inherited a adult child and a small child and now have no life of my own. I didn’t answer the phone Sunday when you called because I was sick with the dreadful stomach virus. I had to call in sick Monday.
I am free this weekend if ya’ll are.
Also, kids are going camping with their dad & stepmom next weekend during Fall Break.
LOVE Ya Bunches!!!
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I was going to post this after my Sarah Palin hunting one but decided that I didn’t want today to be a republican party, more so direct jabs at Sarah Palin day.
She is such an idiot. I totally loved it when Katie was asking her about what publications she’s read.
Which is why it is SO important for us to vote!
So, this dinosaurs thing is hard to wrap my head around. I know this gets discussed incessantly on the internet, but I don’t participate in those discussions so it seems new to me. I was just talking on Tuesday to my friend the Jehovah’s Witness. I was telling her about sharks and the video documentary we watched and a book I am reading to my children. They say 350 kinds of sharks evolved, and that sharks existed before grass and flowers. Then I say to myself is evolution incompatible with Christianity? My friend says adaptation is not the same as evolution and she uses the example of dolphins. To her, a dolphin who swims into a river of fresh water and adapts into a river dolphin is not the same as believing in evolution (which she does not). But I’m thinking (and not voicing) that new species do not come about through adaptation. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an airhead right now. You like airheads, though, right?
I agree with <Doug Wead, though, we can’t ask certain people not to participate in public policy because of their religion. She’s smart. It seems in the past she has demonstrated restraint and not pushed her ideas into policy.
@ fightingwindmills: You don’t sound like an airhead at all!
I can’t understand evolution or creationism, but I tend to side more with science in those instances - mainly because science shouldn’t have an ulterior motive or an agenda.
I do think evolution and Christianity are compatible and even the Pope has recently offered the same sentiments. There are verses in the Bible that discuss the irrelevancy of time to God (a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day), so while scripture points to 6 days of creation, is it literal or figurative?
Personally, I believe in some elements of evolution like species adapting and survival of the fittest. I have a problem swallowing the whole “pool of slime” thing and the Big Bang. If life began with the Big Bang, then what started it and where did all that matter come from? Science can’t answer those questions now and I’m not sure it ever will. So, I tend to think that God started all this and then let nature take its course.
Sorry to ramble on so much.
I can’t wait until the media nabs her “gay friend” for an interview. I’m sure this will happen, just as the pictures of Palin in her Tina Fey Halloween costume will turn up.
Is she smart? Kinda. Smart enough to run a country? Um…golly gosh darn, I don’t think so.
When I said “she’s smart” I meant in the way that she doesn’t push too hard when putting her beliefs into policy. I don’t actually think “she’s smart” when she can’t tell Katie Couric a few of the magazines and newspapers that shape her worldview. She came off badly in those interviews.
“Uh, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me . . . a vast variety . . .”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y