Sarah knows God is on her side
In his haste to secure the hockey mom slash feminist slash blue collar vote, John McCain seems to have picked himself a bonafide crackpot zealot. Salon reports today that the people who know Sarah Palin from back home are a lee-tle terrified of this religious “fundamentalist” potentially coming to power. They’d just like you to know that they know, because they know her, that Palin actually:
- hoped to ban the Rev. Howard Bess’ book, Pastor, I Am Gay, because it portrayed homosexuals in a positive light
- protested outside Dr. Susan Lemagie’s office in an effort to stop her from providing abortions
- cites images of dinosaur fossils with embedded human footprints (does anyone have pictures of these?) as evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, and that the earth is 7000 years old
- believes Jesus will come back to earth in our lifetime.
Rev. Bess thinks the complexity and nuance of running a country is above the head of someone so attached to dogma and righteous conviction. “Like all religious fundamentalists — Christian, Jewish, Muslim — she is a dualist. They view life as an ongoing struggle to the finish between good and evil. Their mind-set is that you do not do business with evil — you destroy it.”
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