Posted on 09/01/2008 5:42:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Key evangelical leaders rallied to Sarah Palin's support Monday amid news that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was having a child.
Sarah Palin confirmed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
"Before, they were excited about her, with the Down syndrome baby," conservative, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said. "But now with this, they are over the moon. It reinforces the fact that this family lives its pro-life values."
Palin and John McCain oppose abortion and have supported promoting abstinence in schools -- which would seem to make Bristol Palin's pregnancy an inconveniently timed development.
But she is keeping the child, a fact that could make the Alaska governor -- whose candidacy has been enthusiastically embraced by evangelicals who regard her as one of their own -- even more popular among that key GOP voting bloc. Watch more on Palin's announcement »
"Fortunately, Bristol is following her mother and father's example of choosing life in the midst of a difficult situation," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said. "We are committed to praying for Bristol and her husband-to-be and the entire Palin family as they walk through a very private matter in the eyes of the public."
Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely.
"This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don't get it," Land said in a statement.
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Good.
This has to be the mother of all blow up in faces..
This is such a non-story.
Excellent.
I know..they are so trying to bring her down.
“”Before, they were excited about her, with the Down syndrome baby,” conservative, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said. “But now with this, they are over the moon. It reinforces the fact that this family lives its pro-life values.””
Unmarried minors getting pregnant doesn’t put me over the moon. Maybe thats just me. I will say this though. I don’t think it necessarily reflects on her as a mother. I’m sure she did teach her child all the right values but as any parent knows, kids do stupid and risky things and often rebel against the parents. I would say that this whole thing reflects on the daughter not the mother.
Good for the Evangelical Community. This is going to backfire on the dems.
LOVE THE BUMPER STICKER.
GREAT BUMPER STICKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Onoz! what will libtards think?
There’s only one Evangelical leader that I care about and he already has a position paper on this issue - let him who is without sin . . .
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The only people who think you follow the steps carefully in some Dr Spock manual to produce perfect kids are those who have never had any.
Obviously if Bristol Palin had followed abstinence she wouldn't be pregnant. Doesn't this just prove that when abstinence is tried, it works?
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What does the school the girl attends teach?
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