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Here’s a link to a site kind enough to both list, and then debunk the litany of Palin rumors and half-truths floating about the blogosphere. Well that and a response to a really hilarious email from the “dude I thought xians were supposed to be …” file.

Always interesting to get instructive emails about my faith from “unmarried marriage experts” whom neither practice nor preach it Christianity - but still insist in cowardly forwarding inflammatory emails from fake email addresses with content that is simply a cut-n-paste dirt from Daily KOS talking points … but I digress …

Here are just but a few to answer a number of incoming “love notes” I’ve received in response to my Aug. 29th post “What some Christian bloggers are (already) saying about Sarah Palin.”

• Yes, there are people in Alaska who think she’s too liberal.
• No, she’s not anti-semitic. In fact, she has an Israeli flag in her office. (Contrary to popular belief, the usual Evangelical thinks Israel has a right to exist, granted by God.)
• Yes, it does appear that Palin’s local pastor preached about an end time when God will judge everyone, even Wasilla, Alaska, and the United States. Duh. This is called the Book of Revelations, and while I don’t believe it personally, I don’t see it as a disqualifier for the hundred million or so Baptists, Methodists, Evangelicals, Episcopalians, Catholics, Assembly of God, Presbyterian, Lutherans (traditional and Missouri Synod), African Methodist, and so on Christians in the US.
• No, she’s doesn’t believe that the Iraq War was directed by God. Yes, she did pray that proceeding with the war was God’s will: “they should pray ‘that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.’” (Ever hear the phrase “Not my will, but Thine, be done”?) Yes, this apparently freaks some people right out.
• Yes, she was apparently pregnant when she got married
• Yes, barring immaculate conception virgin birth (whatever), Bristol appears to have had sex with her fiancee. No, Bristol didn’t receive only “abstinence-only” sex ed.
• yes, she’s an was an Assembly of God Holy Roller. No, she doesn’t attend an AoG church now. Yes, she did leave the AoG because they were getting too weird for her.
• No, she’s not anti-Mormon. No, not all AoG churches are anti-Mormon. (AoG is even more hard-core about allowing each pastor and congregation to make their own decisions than the Baptists are.) (Thanks to AnonAmom in the comments.)
• yes, she apparently believes in some variant of Intelligent Design
• no, she didn’t try to force the schools to teach it; she said if someone brought it up, it was an appropriate subject for debate.
• No, she doesn’t believe in “abstinence only” education. Yes, she thinks abstinence is an effective way of preventing pregnancy. Duh. Yes, she believes kids should learn about condom use in schools.
• Yes, Sarah Palin’s pastor apparently does believe that gays can “repent” and be cured of homosexuality. No, believe it or not, even fundamentalist Christians don’t have to believe every litle thing their pastor believes. Yes, Palin seems to be more libertarian about this.

Now at some point, can we all move onto discussing the issues of the day?

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