April 25, 2024

From the Cindy Handler at the Huffington Post:

In the latest release from this telling head to head, Couric asks whether the candidate believes that people can pray away their homosexuality. To this, Ms. Palin responds with a touching tale of personal friendship, and her refusal to be judgmental. “I have, one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay, and I love her dearly,” she says. “And she is not my ‘gay friend.’ She is one of my best friends.”

Wow, I think as I hear this. For the first time, I feel like we’ve actually had the same experience and feelings about it as two human beings. I look outside to make sure that pigs aren’t flying past my window. But then she continues, and reassures me that this isn’t some parallel universe after all. “[My friend] happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice that I would have made,” she adds. “But I’m not going to judge people.” How kind she is. And how full of crap.

Read the rest if the story at the Huffington Post

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