You're Sarah Palin and you're in your 2nd Presidential campaign, and you get

this letter from one of your daughters. How do you respond?

Dear Mom,

Jeepers, creepers, I couldn’t figure out which of your email accounts I should send this to – I know you hate it when we forget which ones are for real letters and which are the fakes – so I decided to go snail mail.

But maybe I should just have sent this to all your email accounts: I want to shout it to the world! I AM ENGAGED!

I know you’ve been too busy to meet Timothy, but you’re going to love him, Mom, I promise. He’s the complete opposite of – well, you know who. We have so much in common. We love to cook, go to the movies and the opera, and on weekends we go antiquing. He’s so cultured and such a gentleman, he never pressures me at all. Don’t worry – there won’t be any little surprises from me!

I’m not saying he’s perfect. When he was younger he was actually tempted to make some bad choices with other young men. But he prayed A LOT – for years, actually! And then The Big Guy put me in his life and we sure straightened him out. Timothy says I’m the only one now for him, forever and ever, and he can’t wait to have some babies together.

And guess what? He believes in natural family planning, too! He knows that I’m really irregular so we’ll only be able to do it like twice a month (unless we’re in the baby-making mode), but that’s fine with him, because he believes that we were given all our male and female parts for procreation, not recreation, and I do, too.

And did I tell you about his sister, Rhonda? She’s like my best friend now, I just love her to pieces. Sometimes I think I’d marry him just to get her as a sister-in-law! (She’s even coming on our honeymoon!)

Let me know when you want me – and Timothy – to help you on the campaign!

Love,
Me

P.S. Timothy would be great in interviews. He’s so articulate and witty, and he has a really interesting accent. And don’t worry, he KNOWS how to dress!

their mouth is.

They believe gay people can pray themselves straight-- so, fine. If anyone should be accepting of "former gays" marrying their daughters, it should be these very "tolerant" Christians, right?

I, on the other hand, think it makes much more sense to allow gay people to marry each other, and to form the families they want -- not the families we pressure them into making with straight partners.