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Governor Palin has announced that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant out of wed lock. While the Christian Coalition has stated that this should not hurt McCain’s image with Conservative Christian voters, in other words republicans, I beg to differ.

McCain has aligned himself with values that are not and can not be supported by conservative Christian’s. Does not the Bible tell us not to be yoked with those who do not share our values? Not only this, but Governor Palin has yet to apologize for this or publicly say that her daughter getting pregnant so young and out of wedlock was a poor choice. Rather, she has said that she and her family fully support their daughter and are “proud’ to be grandparents.

While the fact that the daughter is planning to keep the child and marry the father may please the conservative Christians on some level, I suspect it will not be enough to convince all to vote Palin in as vice president.  Indeed,  the fact that Palin seems so calm about the situation must seem to conservative Christians a fatal failing both morally and as a mother. If she can not run her home better than this how will we she run our country? How can a woman with such values be expected to make national moral decisions? Granted it may show an anti abortion stance, but it makes much more of a statement about how Palin and her family view marriage, family, and abstinence.   

Can the McCain campaign recover from this moral issue when the majority of republican voters are indeed conservative Christians?  That very much depends upon how the campaign chooses to deal with the issue.  Were McCain and Palin both to admit publicly that the girl had made poor choices that they are ashamed of but that now the family will do what it must to keep Palin’s grandchild, the campaign may have a chance. Yet so far they have not done this. The media reports that McCain’s view of the situation will remain private and Palin has said she fully supports her daughter and is indeed proud to be a grandparent. If they continue with this type of response I believe that they will lose conservative Christian votes and churches nation wide will stand against this mockery of Christian values.

To support this and to say one is proud to be a grandparent may play well for a liberal candidate but Palin and McCain play a dangerous game making such statements when the majority of their votes come from conservative Christians.  This may be just what us democrats have been hoping would happen. Finally, something to turn conservative America against the republicans.