Barry Noreen at the Springs Gazette has the guts to go against the prevailing winds down here. More than once he's taken an unpopular stance in his column. One of his first questioned the ridiculous claim of R's that only they support the troops. He just so happened to have a dictionary with "support" in it. And he still has a job!
Gov. Sarah Palin may be feminine, but she is no feminist.
She believes teaching creationism in public school is a good idea. You know: that Book-of-Genesis blarney about how Eve was created out of Adam's rib, and how someone begat someone else, who begat someone later on, and there was just a whole lot of begatting going on.
Palin thinks telling teenagers to "just say no" is a realistic way of preventing pregnancies.
She's opposed to abortion rights, even in the cases involving rape or incest. In 2006, she said she would oppose an abortion for her own daughter even if she had been raped.
Would it be sexist to call Sarah just a little backwards?
Anyone has a perfect right to believe such things and to shout those beliefs to the rafters. In the days since Palin was added to the GOP ticket by Sen. John McCain, polls have shown that more women seem to be supporting McCain.
Unquestionably, adding Palin to the ticket was good politics.
If those women are supporting the ticket because they agree with a biblical view, fine.
But they shouldn't be fooled into thinking that Palin has much in common with feminists merely because she is a woman.
The continuing down-turn of the far-right's religious stranglehold in El Paso County is obvious. Doug Bruce, James Dobson, Doug Lamborn and Ted Haggard have all done a little to taint what was previously a platinum (R). Local Dems like Mike Merrifield and John Morse have shown the way to electoral victory, and this year we have a full slate of D's on the local ticket.
And the fact that Barry Noreen still has a job and is able to criticize the powers-that-so-far-be is just one more sign of the apocalypse.......for those who believe in that kind of stuff.
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