BunkoSquad

i guess i'm just confused about what "family values" means. valuing your family so very much that you will allow your daughter and her pregnancy to be held under the brightest of all spotlights? of releasing what is in fact a private (but not temporary or invisible) fact to the media as a way to say, "oh no that new baby isn't my daughter's and i'll tell you why, she was already pregnant when triggy was born!"? and/or, i value my family enough to teach them how to use and take care of a gun but not their bodies?
it's heartbreaking and it's stupid and it's a train wreck. and if it's an effort to appeal to americans whose families mirror this one, cool, all families look different. this is america. but how dare you tell me you have the moral higher ground here.
ugh, there is no such thing as "choice" when ignorance and repression are all you've got cooking.
maybe mccain doesn't want to win?
i haven't even read too much of the spin just yet but, clearly, i am dizzy over it already.

and and and and.
mccain and the palins and the right wing are so proud and so pleased and so impressed that bristol "chose" to keep the baby. just like sarah palin's a hero for 'choosing' to have a child with downs syndrome.
right. because there is a choice.
a safe and legal and (in alaska) unrestricted by parental consent choice. an often complicated, and thoughtful, personal choice.
and these are the people that want to take that choice away. from themselves and also from all the folks that do not have anywhere near the resources or support networks that these morons do.
ugh!

>> If her mom is in power, she doesn't get to make that choice.
>> i guess i'm just confused about what "family values" means. valuing your family so very much that you will allow your daughter and her pregnancy to be held under the brightest of all spotlights?

Good points by both of you. Maybe it would have been good for Sarah Palin to have told John McCain "thanks, but now is not a good time for my family" when he asked he about being VP.

If McCain was determined to have his VP pick be a woman to try to get the Hillary/female vote (pandering to the highest degree) there were plenty of other, and better qualified, women in the Republican Party to whom he could have turned.

I am very troubled by the positions this religious leaders take than Paulin’s teen pregnancy itself!
Paulin and these evangelicals are supposed to be the moral compass for this country and the young generation.
Just remember the Lynn Spears teen pregnancy outrage or how babies were removed from teen FLDS members just some months ago.
Everyone was up in arms condemning those immoral acts, but today suddenly is not just OK, but also encouraged by the same inquisitors that claim to have a lock on American good moral values.
I am puzzled by the judgment and values of this kind of leaders and I definitely don’t want them as spiritual mentors or examples for my daughter.