Marjorie Cohn: A Palin Theocracy

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FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2008



A Palin Theocracy
Thursday 11 September 2008

by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective




John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can't stop talking about her. Given McCain's age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 pages long), Palin would indeed be a heartbeat away from becoming president. But what would a Palin administration really look like?

Palin is a radical, right-wing, fundamentalist Christian who would love to create a theocracy. She believes we are living in the "end times" which will result in a bloody inferno from which only true Christians will be saved. Palin recently attended a service in her Wasilla Bible Church run by David Brickner, who runs Jews for Jesus, a group the Anti-Defamation League criticizes for its "aggressive and deceptive" proselytizing of Jews. Those who don't accept Jesus as their savior will burn in Hell, according to Palin's brand of theology.

As governor of Alaska, Palin asked her congregation to pray for the natural gas pipeline, which she characterized as "God's will." She thinks the war in Iraq is a "task that is from God." Palin has pushed for creationism to be taught in schools, and she opposes stem cell research.

Palin's choice to have a Down syndrome child and her teenage daughter's choice to continue her pregnancy have made right-wing evangelical Christians ecstatic. But while she chose pregnancy, Palin would deny a woman victimized by rape or incest the right to choose abortion, and then criminally punish both the woman for having one and her doctor for performing it.

McCain would also love to inject a heavy dose of Christianity into his administration. A year ago, he declared, "The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation." Just about the only issue on which McCain has not flip-flopped is his opposition to abortion rights. The next president will almost certainly make at least one appointment to the Supreme Court. McCain has pledged to appoint judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito; these would also be Palin's preferred judges. Another conservative on the court would mean that Roe v. Wade would be overruled. That would return us to back-alley abortions with coat hangers. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthout.org/article/a-palin-theocracy

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1. I wonder if Palin will be surprised when she wakes up in hell

because a hate-monger like her is heading nowhere else.

[fishjones]

2. Palin: Everything wrong about Bush... and more

Palin: Everything wrong about Bush... and more

Yeah, and we thought that Bush was bad in regards to the Voices... We don't need another End-of-the-Worlder in the Oval Office.

CALL THEM OUT! Make sure that other people know about this.

[AndyTiedye]

3. They'd Install a Theocracy to Ensure a Compliant Populace

It is assumed that the robber barons would not allow the US to become a theocracy
because they would not want to live under a theocracy.

But they would not live under the theocracy, they would live above it,
like the sheikhs of Saudi Arabia.

No form of government is as effective at controlling the plebes than a theocracy.
In all of history, can you think of one theocracy that has fallen to a popular uprising?
I cannot think of a single one.

That is why the robber barons continue to empower the fundies.