Stephen,
It's the irony of the situation. Pro-life, anti-abortion, "family values" traditional Republicans cast sex education and contraception into the Ninth Circle of Hell and hope, pray, and maybe ask kids to wear rings to affirm that they won't have sex. News flash. Bristol, like a good number of young women out there, is sexually active. Unless Levi coerced her into it, she made a decision (not an informed decision, but just a decision) to have sex.
Maybe there was a condom involved; maybe not. Maybe she got a solid talking-to from her parents or her pastor; maybe not. Or maybe she did but wanted to make her own decision. Doesn't matter. She's knocked up.
Do you remember that episode of "Law and Order" about the boy who rapes a teen celebrity, and that his mom who's running some Focus on the Family-type group ends up shooting the shock jock because it's his fault that her precious baby boy did a bad deed?
Anyway, as endearing as it is to have family support, Palin is inconsistent with her proclaimed values. "EXCEPT if it's my child," the poor reasoning goes. I don't think it'd be a far stretch to say that if this were to happen to a Democratic speaker, the Republicans would frame it as a degeneration fostered by encouraging premarital sex. In Bristol's case, it's a "blessing." Gee, thanks.
-- Dee
P.S. A haircut and a shave makes most teenagers look more handsome. It doesn't exactly reduce their number of swear words.
It's the irony of the situation. Pro-life, anti-abortion, "family values" traditional Republicans cast sex education and contraception into the Ninth Circle of Hell and hope, pray, and maybe ask kids to wear rings to affirm that they won't have sex. News flash. Bristol, like a good number of young women out there, is sexually active. Unless Levi coerced her into it, she made a decision (not an informed decision, but just a decision) to have sex.
Maybe there was a condom involved; maybe not. Maybe she got a solid talking-to from her parents or her pastor; maybe not. Or maybe she did but wanted to make her own decision. Doesn't matter. She's knocked up.
Do you remember that episode of "Law and Order" about the boy who rapes a teen celebrity, and that his mom who's running some Focus on the Family-type group ends up shooting the shock jock because it's his fault that her precious baby boy did a bad deed?
Anyway, as endearing as it is to have family support, Palin is inconsistent with her proclaimed values. "EXCEPT if it's my child," the poor reasoning goes. I don't think it'd be a far stretch to say that if this were to happen to a Democratic speaker, the Republicans would frame it as a degeneration fostered by encouraging premarital sex. In Bristol's case, it's a "blessing." Gee, thanks.
-- Dee
P.S. A haircut and a shave makes most teenagers look more handsome. It doesn't exactly reduce their number of swear words.
