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When news broke that Brittny Spears' 16-yr-old little sister was pregnant out-of-wedlock, rightwing pundits O'Reilley, Limbaugh, and Hannity blamed the teen's parents. O'Reilley called them pinheads, but now defends Sarah Palin, explaining that her unwed teen daughter was supervised when she got knocked up.
Normally, none of this should make a lot of difference in politics. But lord knows we've already seen far too much hypocrisy in our last Vice Prez. From being against same sex marriage to his daughter's "miracle baby", it is the lack of character reflected by Cheney's total hypocrisy that sets him apart from normal folks. And Palin's no better, having cut aid to unwed, homeless mothers and vehemently opposed sex education.
So the deep flaws you see in Cheney are already revealed in Gov Palin. He knew that Iraq was of little or no threat and would be a quagmire, yet he beat the war drums harder than anyone. Palin said that going there was God's work.
If Sarah Palin's a true Christian, (as she claims), her Bible reads essentially the same as mine. Exodus 20:16: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". Yet Palin repeatedly lies in her speeches, purely for political power.
Proverbs 11:9 reads "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered."
So will the Christian Right, who broadly endorse sister Sarah for McCain's VP, rebuke her? Not likely. There's the matter of the millions paid to them by the Bush administration which is really the modern day version of selling indulgences.
Reconstructionists and Catholics both know how totally corrupt selling indulgences is. Calling the millions in federal funding "faith-based charity" instead of "indulgences" doesn't make them any less so.
Luckily modern-day Pharisees are easily identified, because in Matthew 23, Jesus not only left us an accurate description, He also left firm instructions to rebuke them!
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