Dear Friends and Family,
I didn’t grow up talking about politics, but one very influential person in my college life got me pretty fired up. Now, going on 40, and living thru the Bush, Clinton, and Bush years…and living through the 9-11 attacks as a New York City resident…my opinions have taken shape.
Above all I am pro-choice. Right now we need to think of our daughters, nieces, and sisters. Palin would make abortion illegal for anyone…even rape and incest victims. I mean, are you kidding me? She also believes in teaching abstinence only…look how good that turned out in her own home! I don’t mean that as an attack, just that if her daughter had been given ANY option for birth control she may not be finding herself pregnant and forced into marriage at 17. And what kind of message is that sending to our young women?
I also strongly believe in the separation of church and state. I’ll keep my state out of your church…you keep your church out of my state.
I went to the kind of church that Sarah Palin grew up in while in high school…extremism on either side of the fence is not good. This is not the kind of person that should be in politics as her religious beliefs are so ingrained into her being and I don’t believe she can seperate church and state. I know there are so many other issues but, it’s time to move forward, and to respect the work that our mother’s and grandmother’s have done before us.
My grandmother, who died three years ago tomorrow, voted for Bill Clinton because “We need a change”…
A vote for McCain/Palin is not a pro-woman vote!
so, next is the email that prompted this post!!!
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Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters,
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate that has a real possibility of becoming fact.
Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental
protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet. We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager,but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for
Vice President. Ms. Palin’s political views are in every way a slap in
the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we’ve so demonstrably benefited from.
*First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.*
*Therefore, we invite you to reply here <womensaynopalin@gmail.com <mailto:womensaynopalin@gmail.com> > with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for ournation.*
Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.
We will post your responses on a blog called “Women Against Sarah Palin,”
which we intend to publicize as widely as possible. Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience<the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.
Thank you for your time and action.
Sincerely,
Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston
New York, NY
womensaynopalin@gmail.com <mailto:womensaynopalin@gmail.com>
***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!* If you send this to 20 women in
the next hour, you could be blessed with a country that takes your
concerns seriously.
Stranger things have happened.