Both Sides Need to Shut UP!

I've had it up to here (holds hand all the way up) with hearing liberal commentators use Bristol Palin's pregnancy as an example of why sex education needs to be taught in school. Hey geniuses, just because your mom is against sex ed. (in theory, in practice Palin had NEVER signed or pushed for any legislation that would ban sex ed), doesn't mean that you've never took sexual education.

Bristol Palin went to public school. Bristol was attending public school when she met her fiancee Levi, Bristol was not sheltered. If anything this weakens the case of the sex ed. champions, one could reasonably argue that perhaps Bristol would have chosen abstinence had her only influence been her parents. But never allow common sense to get in the way of an agenda.

But the title of this piece is "BOTH SIDES Need to Shut Up." I am equally as fed up with the religious right trying to hold up baby Trig as a reason to further their pro life agenda. The fact of the matter is this, the choice that you people laud, wouldn't be available if it weren't for Roe v. Wade.

I may come off here as being anti-sex ed. and pro abortion, but I'm not. I'm just tired of the little stuff being turned into big stuff. I'm exhausted at the notion that every detail of this family's life is being turned into a political debate. I'm terrified that the "Culture Wars" may make a comeback. As a Goldwater conservative, I don't necessarily understand what these issues have to do with smaller government, less taxes, less regulations and stronger military. Both sides seem to want to distract America from the issues that matter in an attempt at tricking the uneducated to vote for their side.

Sarah Palin may be a leader in the Republican party for the next 16 years, hopefully we'll be able to follow her career instead of her family's upbringing.

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