My Response to the Announcement of Bristol Palin Pregnancy

In my last post a few of you started posting your opinions about Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy.  I was going to just post my thoughts on the comments, but figured I would just do a post instead.  Honestly I think that Obama put it best when he said,

“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”

I really feel that this has nothing to do with her run. I think Bristol is almost an adult, she is getting married and having a precious baby.  Yes, she made a choice that has altered her life forever, but she made a choice for life, and a baby is ALWAYS a blessing.  My heart goes out to the family as I’m sure this could have been heart breaking to her parents at first.  But this is their private issue and Obama is right, families off limits.  I hope the folks at the Daily Kos feel like idiots now for proposing Trig was really Bristol’s baby and that there was an elaborate cover-up on the part of Sarah Palin to make it look like hers.  

As a christian does this bring Gov. Palin down a notch for me?  Absolutely not.  People have free will and hopefully our children will never rebel.  You know I have struggled over this issue and pray for my children that they won’t just follow the rest of the world in the decisions they make for their lives.  However, people mess up sometimes and God still loves them.  It sounds to me like Bristol and her boyfriend Levi are taking full responsibility for their decision.