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1. michael

   4 years ago

   What about the immorality of knowingly and needlessly shoving the two teenagers and their baby into a media firestore? "That's where the lack of judgment is shown by Sarah Palin as well as John McCain.
   Pam | 9/2/2008"
   
   Well lets see.... a liberal news web outlet broke this story to smear the Palin family.
   
   and John, my dad was the result of my grandparents mistake just before my grandfather left for the pacific WW2. They got married and have been married for 60 years. Bristol and Levi might be different but neither of us know a thing about them., so why be disturbed?

2. michael

   4 years ago

   Sarah Palin: "If legislature passed death penalty law, I would sign it. (Nov 2006)"
   
   Who's for a natural death? Not Sarah Palin.
   
   So LP, if you are Catholic than you should research the Churches teaching on the death penalty. I am opposed to it personally and I would vote to eliminate it. But the Greater evil is ripping a baby apart. Unless you want to compare a murder to an unborn child.
   
   I will not vote for Obama/Biden but if they do win the election it will be a just penalty for the sins of this nation.

3. Thomas J. McCarthy

   4 years ago

   Maria, get the facts straight!! Tens of Millions have died at the hand of abortionists, while about one million died in U.S. Wars.
   
   American Civil War--625,000
   World War II--405,399
   World War I--116,516
   Vietnam War--58,151
   Korean War--36,516
   American Revolutionary War--25,000
   War of 1812--20,000
   Mexican-American War--13,283
   Philippine War--4,196
   Iraq War--4,152
   TOTAL 1,308,213
   
   UNITED STATES
   
   Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
   
   Multiply that by 35 years (since 1973) and you get approximately 48 million.
   
   Math was not your best subject; was it!

4. Margaret

   4 years ago

   Thanks for writing this article! I encourage all Catholics to speak up now...in line at the grocery store, in the lunchrooms at work, at gatherings with friends. Speak up with a firm yet gentle voice like Jesus would. People stumble and make wrong choices but life is ALWAYS God's creation. Honor God as we honor each heartbeat. So go ahead speak the truth for all to hear.

5. Bridgette

   4 years ago

   Jaime Lynn Spears had a baby out of wedlock and it was a scandal and of course she's a bad role model for other teens, but Bristol is a hero because she made the right decision. Is anyone else concerned over how this might affect other teenagers? Apparently having babies when you're an unmarried teenager is the fad now.

6. D

   4 years ago

   Deacon Keith:
   
   Interesting viewpoint, but you should not be looking just to bash Democrats. Clinton said he never inhaled, but Bush said he "can't remember" when the topic of his cocaine use came up. Also, Bush's DUI was announced only after it was leaked to the media.
   
   I agree that Bristol Palin has shown that she is pro-life, but giving credit to her mother, Sarah, is sort of an oxymoron. You credit Sarah for bestowing the values of pro-life, but those values don't stretch to abstinence before marriage. You can't praise one way without disparaging the other.

7. LP

   4 years ago

   "the right to life from conception to natural death."
   
   Sarah Palin: "If legislature passed death penalty law, I would sign it. (Nov 2006)"
   
   Who's for a natural death? Not Sarah Palin.

8. Perryj

   4 years ago

   It is an excellent point that we need to vote for someone that lives the life of Christ. Governor Palin is living the life we should. Did her daughter make a mistake? Yes. She is taking responsibility for it as is her mother. I truly fear for the life of the many Catholic politicians that do not follow Christ with their voting. We certainly should not follow them. How many people are confused by Catholic politicians that support abortion. How can anyone call themselves Christian and support abortion? How far we have fallen!

9. R.C.

   4 years ago

   Pam:
   
   Out of all the criticisms of the Palins I've seen here, yours is the closest to reasonable.
   
   I suppose the question is: If you are called to what will be, without a doubt, a difficult act service, is it *ever* okay to allow that burden to affect your children?
   
   Should foreign missionaries, for example, give up all missionary service while any of their children are between birth and age eighteen?
   
   Or, for that matter, in realms political: Should a man ever be president, if he has children in the house? Because it's tough on the kid: The Bush twins could testify. Chelsea Clinton could tell you. So could Amy Carter.
   
   All-in-all, though, being child of the V.P. isn't nearly so bad. We've now seen, from Bristol's point-of-view, the worst of it. Unless some new evidence of bad behavior emerges, her mom will get the brunt of the media hatred henceforth.
   
   So, while I sympathize with your argument, I'm not convinced by it.

10. R.C.

    4 years ago

    Catherine:
    
    You refer to the Palins' "glaring failure to teach their teenage daughter abstinence."
    
    How do you know they failed to do so?
    
    Do you also believe in the Church's "glaring failure to teach abstinence?" After all, there are sexually-active unwed Catholics.
    
    How many "glaring failures" will we hold the Pope, or our parish priest, or we ourselves, responsible for, if we assume that every sin happens because that person's parents, priests, or Pope didn't teach them not to sin?
    
    Apparently the Church doesn't teach the world not to murder; after all there are murders. Neither does she teach the world not to believe paganism or pantheism or atheism, as there are pagans, pantheists, and atheists.
    
    I could go on, but the repetition grows wearisome. Suffice it to say that until we learn that Gov. Palin set up a love-shack for the two teens and provided them with champagne, it seems far more rational to assume that the parents instructed, but the children didn't obey.
    
    Where, O Father In Heaven, have I seen *that* pattern, before?

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