Evangelicals rally behind Palin after pregnancy news (CNN web site)

[steve2470]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/palin.evangelicals/index.html

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Key evangelical leaders rallied to Sarah Palin's support Monday amid news that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was having a child.

"Before, they were excited about her, with the Down syndrome baby," conservative, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said. "But now with this, they are over the moon. It reinforces the fact that this family lives its pro-life values."

Palin and John McCain oppose abortion and have supported promoting abstinence in schools, which would seem to make Bristol Palin's pregnancy an inconveniently timed development.

But she is keeping the child, a fact that could make the Alaska governor -- whose candidacy has been enthusiastically embraced by evangelicals who regard her as one of their own -- even more popular among that key GOP voting bloc.

"Fortunately, Bristol is following her mother and father's example of choosing life in the midst of a difficult situation," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said. "We are committed to praying for Bristol and her husband-to-be and the entire Palin family as they walk through a very private matter in the eyes of the public."

Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely.

"This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don't get it," Land said in a statement.

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[Punkingal]

1. Only a Sicko could say this:

"Before, they were excited about her, with the Down syndrome baby," conservative, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said. "But now with this, they are over the moon. It reinforces the fact that this family lives its pro-life values.":puke: :puke: :puke:

[NotThisTime]

2. Too bad the father doesn't want any kids... wonder if he knows he's getting married?

[NYC Liberal]

3. Again, let's ask them how they would feel about a 17 year old Obama daughter

getting pregnant.

I'm *sure* their response would be the same!

[Cassandra]

9. Their response:

"Obama's got a 17 year old daughter? Where is she? Is she a Muslim? We won't rest until we find her!"

[BrklynLiberal]

4. These guys are DEFINITELY escapees from Bizarro World...

Their grasp on reality is tenuous at best.
I hope the warp opens again and they can return to their own plane of existence soon.

[MrModerate]

5. Trade-off: Fundies who might have stayed home in November . . .

Might not after all. Reasonable people on the fence now know that McCain is batshit insane and can't be trusted to make sensible choices.

I think we win that one.

[demobabe]

6. Uggg!

Don't have sex. Don't use contraceptives. Don't learn about Sex Ed. But if you happen to have a baby, that's the most wonderful thing in the world and we stand behind you and applaud you...

[vaberella]

7. I wonder what they'll say when they find out she's a Domionist and secessionist. n/t

[avaistheone1]

8. Great! Let's have abstinence only programs through out the land!!

and everyone prepare for your teenage children not to finish high school and to give birth to children of their own. Forget whether they are emotionally or physically prepared to handle it.

Forget that these babies tends to be more still- births and have more birth defects than other babies. Let's just happy talk that we are one big happy family.

In fact be prepared for your teenage children to give birth to one child after another.
Who needs education after all?

Parents just go out to your backyard money tree and be prepared to provide financially what your teenage can not for their own kids.

[avaistheone1]

10. The fundies will experience the blow back if they try to make Bristol their pro-life poster girl

If that is the case you can count on a serious explosion of teenage pregnancy is the Bible Belt. The red states already lead the states in teenage pregnancy, particularly in the BB.

Sanctifying Bristol will only give these teens the green light to teenage pregnancy. These teenage girls see a cute baby carriage and they are ready to become a mother. I wish I was kidding, but I am not. I worked in a teenage pregnancy program. These kids are in fantasy land. So the fundies had better be careful of how they play things or they could send their own ridiculous teenage pregnancy rates into the stratosphere.