Family Values

MANIFESTO

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.— H.L. Mencken
Alaska's governor is "over the moon" (You can see Russia from there.) with the arrival of her bastard grandson. Moreover, she opines that "The road ahead for this young couple will not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy." By this statement are we to infer that the pious Palin believes premarital sex is "worthwhile?"

And another red state is in the news today for a comparable achievement:

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate ... according to a new federal report released Wednesday.

Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

I can't help remembering how the media in 2004 claimed that Republican electoral victories in that year were due to voters' concerns about moral (read "Christian") values. Like all hypocrites, it looks like Republicans wish to impose those values only on other people.