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I, too, am concerned with what I’m seeing from Republicans, conservatives, Christians, and Christian leaders. Our society has so far backslidden that when an unwed pregnant woman doesn’t decide to kill her baby, we must bow down and ignore the fornication part. If the Palins didn’t proclaim how Christian they are, I wouldn’t have expected better. But, Christians are supposed to know better and therefore I expect more. Like a marriage as soon as it was discovered there was a baby on the way. I don’t think that’s asking too much of a VP candidate.

This is a family matter, not a political one.

Sarah Palin made it a political matter when she accepted McCain’s VP offer.

I seem to remember Jesus saying something about Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

I also remember Jesus speaking out against adultery, and giving commandments to reserve sex for marriage.

But I’m sure you don’t really care about what Jesus or the Bible says.

Really though, this should be a none stroy. Anyone really care?

eski502 on September 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM

Na, just us conservatives.

Aslans Girl on September 2, 2008 at 8:29 PM

I understand your trepidation and disappointment – I can certainly identify with it. However, life doesn’t always go the way we want, or the way we planned. What matters is not dwelling on what could have been, or regretting mistakes. We face the challenges we are given head on. We don’t skulk away in shame. We own up to our mistakes and make the best of them.

I wish that things had not come down the way it did. I wish that my image of her had not been tarnished. I wish she was perfect. But, she’s not, she’s human, like me. And Bristol is human, like girls in my own family. How can I not embrace them? How can I define them by their failings when they obviously so much more than that?

If Bristol had wanted to stay home, and not partake in her mother’s success, I’m sure that option was open to her – it would certainly have been less risky for her. But she didn’t. Do you think that Bristol would be better served by having her mother lose this opportunity? How do you think she would feel knowing her mother passed this opportunity up to serve her country because of something she had done?

As for announcing the news, when do you think it would have been more appropriate? Do you think that Sarah embarked on this without the approval and support of her family? I’m sure that soon we will hear from Bristol. I would be willing to bet she is immensely proud of her mother and feels her mother has much to offer the country and would be mortified if her mother turned this down in order to be with her.

OMG!!! We now have an example of a teen from Alaska who got pregnant!! Clearly this changes everything and proves that abstinence only teaching is a failure!!

twoarmman on September 2, 2008 at 6:21 AM

Actually, Sarah pressed to have birth control taught in the schools. You are just regurgitating information fed to you without any research of your own.

Your entire argument is fallacious, as condoms are ubiquitous in our culture; falsely promoted as “Safe sex” when we know that is not true. Birth control can fail, abstinence never does.

Aside from the physical dangers of teens engaging in sex, it opens them up to emotional pain that they would not be experiencing otherwise. They are not emotionally mature enough for the complexity that sex brings to a relationship.

DFCtomm, thanks. The thing is though, I don’t feel that this has been handled in a conservative fashion, or at least not as conservatively as should be. Bristol should already be married and this wouldn’t feel like a blind-side.

-Aslan’s Girl

Aslans Girl on September 2, 2008 at 9:26 PM

I don’t know why you feel blindsided, unless you are a member of the Palin’s immediate family. This is a family matter, not a political one. The family’s first concern was Bristol and her unborn child. I don’t know what your conservative playbook says, but my Christian heart tells me that mother and child come first.

As for the marriage, they may have waited until farther along in the pregnancy to sure everything was a go. (My children were planned and wanted, and we did not go forward with names, nursery, and baby clothes until the third trimester).

It could also be that the young couple is receiving pre-marital counseling through their pastor, and are busy making all the preparations to get their lives back in order before getting married.

The best we can do is offer our prayers and understanding.
Please find it in your heart to have compassion for a young girl who made one mistake and embraces it as a blessing.

-Aslan’s Girl

You shouldn’t feel ashamed of your convictions, and nobody should flame you because you have them. Sex out of wedlock happens even in simpler times when the social consequences were severe, it happened. The test now, as it was then, is how it was dealt with, and so far they are dealing with it in an acceptable conservative fashion.

I feel that I have been blindsided and if everyone had been up front about this (i.e. a marriage), I would have still supported Palin knowing that there was no shock to come. Now, I feel a bit used that the news came out only after everyone was thrilled, donated millions of dollars, and the news could get buried by the hurricane and the first day of convention.

This is supposed to be a happy time. McCain chose a conservative instead of a Lieberman or a Ridge, it’s the convention which is our once-every-four-years celebration, and all my favorite Republicans are getting airtime. Instead, all of my favorite Republicans are out having to defend Gov. Palin. I’m not even looking forward to my Fred! as much now as I had been because all he’s going to talk about is this. This shouldn’t have been handled this way, there should be nothing to defend because the couple either should already be married or the Palins/McCain let the public know sooner. In which case this whole thing would get very little airtime because there would be no scandal.

I’m sure I’ll be told that at least she’s not killing the baby, well, in my opinion that’s a given. I am not so back-slidden that the very fact that one isn’t killing one’s baby is enough to totally ignore the fact that there was premarital sex and as yet, no marriage.

I feel Allah’s pessimism and am glad that I’m not alone. I do feel like there’s more bad news to come because now I have had my trust broken. Call me naive, but that is how I feel. I would feel much differently if I didn’t feel so lied to. I’m sure I’ll come around, and hopefully Palin’s speech goes a long way to accomplishing that, but I cannnot as a Christian act like this behaviour is completely acceptable. I expect more from my fellow Christians, first I expect that there will be self-control from premarital sex, but in the event of a pregnancy, I expect a quick wedding as well as some shame, not parading around on the national stage while the mother gets the VP position. Yes, this is judgmental, and I don’t know that there wasn’t shame in the beginning, but imo, Bristol Palin should have stayed home.

I’m not looking forward to the flaming that this post will receive, but there it is.

-In sadness, Aslan’s Girl

When Pres. Bush first took office most of normal America identified and empathized when his daughters got caught doing some underage drinking. I think it cast him as more human, and gave most people, that had raised teenagers, a chuckle. Which is not the reaction the MSM was going for, and so that line was quickly dropped. I think you will see a similar reaction here.

Update: For once, Dobson sounds the right note: – AP

Must be the first time AP heard Dobson.

Fred Thompson is speaking tonight instead of Rudy, I wonder if he’ll talk about being a father at 17.

ScrappleFace reports on a good-will gesture Obama might make to Sarah Palin, in light of news that her eldest daughter is pregnant: “Gov. Palin,” said Sen. Obama addressing himself to her personally, “you tried to teach your daughter about morals……