The Sarah Palin Thread.

[HappySqurriel]

akuma587 said:

HappySqurriel said:

 

 

I agree that lots of bad policies are consistent with people's beliefs, and (in fact) I believe that Sarah Palin's policy decision was wrong, this doesn't change the fact that akuma's claim that it was hypocritical was entirely wrong ...

On top of this, I didn't jump to any conclusions ... I made the stament "If Sarah Palin believes ... " which leaves open the possibility that she doesn't believe that.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/01/1320417.aspx

Palin is a staunch supporter of abstinence only education.  The abstinence only education she gave her child was obviously ineffective.  Thus, she is a hypocrite for claiming that abstinence only education is the appropriate sexual education method for our schools when, by looking at her own family, it is obviously not an effective means of preventing teen pregnancy.

And don't claim that it isn't the mother's fault that her child is pregnant.  It is not directly her fault, but if the child wasn't using contraception because her mother or school never told her about it, then it is partially Palin's fault.

Abstinence-only education is a hideous failure in most places it is implemented (including my hometown).  The local town and the university here (both pretty sizable, the town is 200,000) are in the top 3 towns and top 3 universities for STD infections in the nation.

Read my other post ... There are three possibilities, and I personally think that is the least likely (#2 being the most likely)