McCain's Choice Inspires Evangelicals ( WaPo blog title )

[steve2470]

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/08/palin_strong_person_of_faith_e.html?hpid=topnews

Elsewhere on this site, Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten wonders in all seriousness whether John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is "a disastrous stumble or a monstrous gaffe?"

The reaction of conservative evangelical leaders suggests a third option: Truly inspired.

In a CBSNews.com interview earlier this month, Southern Baptist heavyweight Richard Land said John McCain's choice of a running mate would be crucial to conservative evangelicals who have their doubts about him.

"I think that the vice presidential choice that John McCain makes is probably the most important choice he's going to make in this entire campaign," Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said Aug. 8. "Because he has no room for error, no margin for doubt. If he picks a pro-choice running mate, it will confirm the unease and the mistrust that some evangelicals--and don't forget this, social conservative Catholics--feel about McCain."

So who did Land think McCain should choose?

"Probably Governor (Sarah) Palin of Alaska, because she's a person of strong faith," Land said. "She just had her fifth child, a Downs Syndrome child. And there's a wonderful quote that she gave about her baby, and the fact that she would never, ever consider having an abortion just because her child had Downs Syndrome. She's strongly pro-life."

more at link above

So... does any of this blog make sense ?

[Bicoastal]

1. Yes. Republicans see women as docile baby-making machines.

[Overseas]

2. Anti-choice and Anti-science. Their favorite things.

Richard Viguerie said Phyllis Schlaffly liked the pick too.



Creationism in schools:
http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/10/27/intelligent_design_and_the_ala/

[CitizenPatriot]

3. her daughter is apparently pro-"life" as well?

You know, the hypocrisy is astounding.

if she is lying about this baby, will that be ok with the evangelicals?

of course it will.

jesus loves a liar. drill here, drill now.