Evangelical Governor Sarah Palin has become something of a conservative icon these days for Christians. Anyone who watched the Fox News interview last night with Governor Palin and her 18-year-old daughter, however, should be asking some hard questions.
Fornicating and then having a baby out of wedlock is apparently no longer viewed as sin among evangelical Christians. The word “sin” simply does not exist. Neither is marriage all that important to this “pro-family” leader. Her daughter and boyfriend are still unmarried after their child was born. Bristol is only now “engaged” to the high school drop-out who fathered her child. Sarah and Todd Palin are OK with this. As for Bristol, she says she has “no regrets”, not even for her child who was born outside of the institution of marriage, and she thinks that abstinence is unrealistic. I would suggest that with a moral outlook devoid of God’s authoritative Word, she is correct. Bristol does not appear to begin to understand what she has done and what kind of an example she has been to other girls her age, many of whom will never have wealthy parents to pick up the pieces. Worse still, Governor Palin shrugs the situation off as not ideal, but says the family will “make the most of it.”
I am not suggesting a return to the era of the scarlet letter, nor that girls in this situation do not need help and support from their families. They certainly do need that. What I find alarming is the total lack of proper shame today among Christians regarding immorality. Bristol and her boyfriend have been drinking the Kool-Aid of our sexually promiscuous culture, and yet they seem utterly untroubled. With their parents to pick up the tab and with a society that says sex among kids is normal, why would they be troubled?
How can we claim to support the sanctity of marriage and go around with petitions and placards to defend it against those who would pervert it when our own supposedly Christian children view abstinence as “unrealistic” and marriage as optional when children are conceived? No wonder the homosexuals jeer at us. Lastly, why would Todd and Sarah Palin allow Bristol on national television as some kind of celebrity for having a baby out of wedlock, her sole accomplishment thus far in life? What message are they sending her–that fornication pays with big media gigs?
If a daughter of a supposedly Christian home can go on national television with parental sanction and state that abstinence (moral purity) is unattainable, it says volumes about the values she has imbibed. Bristol appears to be the tragic product of completely secular thinking. God and His Word apparently have nothing to do with her world and life view.
I don’t care how high Sarah Palin climbs in her political career or how many dog races her husband Todd wins. When they allow their daughter on national TV to spout Planned Parenthood lies, they have failed at the most important job of all.
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