Did She Really Just Say, "One of My Best Friends Is Gay!"???
By Kate Getty, October 2, 2008, 11:11am, Qmmunity
Dress this one up in lipstick all you want, it's still gonna chap some asses out there.
Sarah Palin, McCain's incredibly eloquent running mate, has just made another enter-mouth-insert-foot comment. (Dinosaurs?) This one nailed gays. Palin was questioned by Katie Couric about her church offering a conference promoting the often-harmful conversion programs that claim to "pray away the gay."
Palin asserted that her one gay friend (Sorry, Savage, she already has one!) made a choice, a choice she wouldn't have made herself.
Full-on Quote (eat it up, kids):
"But what you're talking about, I think, is what my position is on homosexuality and 'You can pray it away,' because I think that was the title that was listed on that bulletin. And you know, I don't know what prayers are worthy of being prayed. I don't know what prayers are going to be asked and answered. But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay, and I love her dearly. And she is not my 'gay friend,' she is one of my best friends, who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice I would have made. But I am not going to judge people."
Sure sounds judgy-wudgy to me.
Man. All this time I could have just said "thanks but no thanks" to wanting to muffdive and wear flannel with practical shoes??? Man. What a waste of Birkenstocks.
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