Jesus, Judgment and Palin’s Pregnancy

Seventeen-year-old Bristol Palin has been dragged into the news this week. It was bound to happen, even if her mother had not just been named by John McCain as his pick for running mate. As the daughter of Alaska’s governor, the pregnancy was sure to come under the harsh glare of public scrutiny.

However news of the First Daughter of Alaska is small news in the lower forty-eight states. If it weren’t for her Mom being McCain’s VP pick, even opinion writers and political junkies in Alaska would have moved along more quickly to other topics. After all, teen pregnancy is not as uncommon as we would like for it to be. Who is left to feign shock? The issue of unwed or teen pregnancy at has already touched every extended family in America in an earlier generation if not this one.

Young Bristol is not just Alaska news now. She could end up one heart beat away from being First Daughter of these United States and so the inquiry and analysis has been all the more daunting. Prolifically pontificating pundits have wasted a lot of ink and airtime to tell us why this is a political issue or why we need to keep our noses out of what is a family matter.

I have no political axe to grind one way or the other. I can understand why some may pause and wonder if this news affects their political decision making. But, I don’t care to join that speculation. Instead, I would like to wonder aloud with you about what Jesus might do in a similar circumstance. Notice I’m not asking here, “How would Jesus vote?” I am asking, “What Jesus would do?”

That's the start of today's religion column for the Tribune & Georgian which continues here: Jesus, Judgment and Palin’s Pregnancy

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The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor