Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin's Opinions

Abortion Should abortion be legal? Disagree [I'm as] pro-life as any candidate can be [...and has...] adamantly supported our cause since I first understood, as a child, the atrocity of abortion. The Long Standing Pitch   Edit Pitches 01 Jun 2002    Source Is abortion morally acceptable? Disagree [The Alaskan gubernatorial candidates were pressed on their stances on abortion and were even asked what they would do if their own daughters were raped and became pregnant. Sarah Palin said she would support abortion only if the mother's life was in danger. When it came to her daughter, she said] I would choose life. Edit Pitches 03 Nov 2006    Source Health Is abstinence-only sex education effective? Agree Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support. [in answer to the question: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?] Edit Pitches 31 Jul 2006    Source Should research on stem cells from human embryos be banned? Mostly Agree My personal opinion is we should not create human life, create an embryo and then destroy it for research, if there are other options out there. Edit Pitches 12 Sep 2008    Source Religion Should Intelligent Design be taught in science class? Agree Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. The Framing Pitch   Edit Pitches 27 Oct 2006    Source Homosexuality Should gay and straight couples have the same legal benefits? Disagree Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that she will comply with an Alaska Supreme Court order issued Tuesday to offer health and retiree benefits to same-sex partners of state employees starting Jan. 1. "We believe that we have no more judicial options to pursue. So we may disagree with kind of the foundation there, the rationale behind the ruling, but our responsibility is to proceed forward with the law and abide by the constitution" Edit Pitches 21 Dec 2006    Source Does homosexuality have a significant genetic component? Neutral I don't know [whether homosexuality is genetic or learned], but I'm not one to judge and, you know, I'm from a family and from a community with many, many members of many diverse backgrounds and I'm not going to judge someone on whether they believe that homosexuality is a choice or genetic. The Average Joe Pitch   Edit Pitches 13 Sep 2008    Source God Is God on our side in war? Agree Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that what we have to make sure what we’re praying for, [is] that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan. [editors note: the comments caused a media stir, and in a later interview Palin talked about what she really meant] The God Said Pitch   Edit Pitches 08 Jun 2008    Source Neutral I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that's a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side. ... I send my first born, my son, my teenage son overseas with his Stryker brigade, 4,000 other wonderful American men and women, to fight for our country, for democracy, for our freedoms. The Patriot Pitch   The Family Pitch   Edit Pitches 11 Sep 2008    Source

Liberty Are gun control laws a serious breach of civil liberties? Agree I applaud the Court for standing up for the Constitution and the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. [The high court’s 5-4 ruling in District of Columbia vs. Heller affirmed gun rights by striking down the District’s 32-year-old ban on handguns.] The Liberal Pitch   Edit Pitches 26 Jun 2008    Source Energy Should oil be drilled in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Agree It's been grossly misunderstood on many fronts. When you see the pictures, the visuals used in the opponents' message--and usually this is extreme environmentalists--their message as to why ANWR shouldn't be touched, you see pictures of mountains and rivers and beautiful green valleys. That's not ANWR. ANWR is a flat, barren plain that is very, very rich in resources. The Dirty Enemy Pitch   Edit Pitches 25 Aug 2008    Source Was oil a motivation for invading Iraq in 2003? Agree We are a nation at war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources, which is nonsensical when you consider that domestically we have the supplies ready to go. The Admirable Admission Pitch   Edit Pitches 29 Aug 2008    Source Climatology Is global warming caused primarily by humans? Disagree A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. The Reverse Bias Pitch   Edit Pitches 29 Aug 2008    Source Is the IPCC objective? Disagree ...these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science. The Growing Realization Pitch   The Name Calling Pitch   Edit Pitches 09 Feb 2009    Source Global Warming Must we know the cause of climate change before we try to affect it? Disagree But there are real changes going on in our climate. And I don't want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts? We have got to clean up this planet. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that. As governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We've got to reduce emissions. The Hail Mary Pitch   The Long Standing Pitch   Edit Pitches 02 Oct 2008    Source Philosophy Can you put a price on life? Disagree The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion. ... [It's] Orwellian thinking... The Personal Pitch   The Patriot Pitch   The Family Pitch   The Glittering Generality Pitch   The Demonizing Pitch   Edit Pitches 08 Aug 2009    Source Ethics Do Muslims have the right to build a mosque near ground zero? Disagree Mr. President, should they or should they not build a mosque steps away from where radical Islamists killed 3000 people? ... If those who wish to build this Ground Zero mosque are sincerely interested in encouraging positive "cross-cultural engagement" and dialogue to show a moderate and tolerant face of Islam, then why haven't they recognized that the decision to build a mosque at this particular location is doing just the opposite? Edit Pitches 14 Aug 2010    Source

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Conforming Opinions

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Projected Opinions

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