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Palin: Being Gay Is A Choice

By The Daily Dish
Oct 1 2008, 12:35 PM ET

What else did we think she would say? It's her core religious belief. She also believes that the world was created 6,000 years ago, that the sun once stood still above the earth, and that witchcraft is a big enough threat to have a witch-doctor personally protect her from it.

For the record, Palin opposes all rights for gay couples, opposes marriage equality, opposes allowing gays to serve openly in the military, opposes gay-inclusive hate crimes legislation, opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and opposes immigration rights for same-sex spouses of American citizens. We have also yet to find the one lesbian friend she claims she has. Meanwhile, Glenn Reynolds says, with a straight face:



 

 

Funny that she and John McCain get so little credit from the gay community for what have actually been quite progressive attitudes.

It's "quite progressive" to want to strip gay couples of all legal rights, persecute them in the military, oppose hate crimes laws uniquely for them (but not for others), support the right to fire gays at will (unlike any other minorities), and go to a church that urges that gays be "cured". But Palin has one alleged lesbian friendno one knows about - and, given the fact that she is a pathological liar, we have to take that on trust. 

Do you think Strom Thurmond had one black friend? I mean: apart from the woman he had a child with.

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