> Time magazine has a new profile of Palin out and it includes several
> quotes from John Stein, a mayor of Wasilla before Palin.
> The whole story can be found at.
>
>
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html?imw=Y
>
> One of the scarier parts of the story:
> Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs
> into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about
> banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate
> language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker,
> couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that
> Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the
> mayor.
>
> *curmudgeon*
> "The best read illiterate in the country"
Ban Christmas, etc too.
Ban all cultural references to the English Purtians.
"Some have suggested that it is a "Puritan spirit" in the United
States' political culture that creates a tendency to oppose things
such as alcohol and open sexuality. However, the Puritans were not
opposed to drinking alcohol in moderation or to enjoying their
sexuality within the bounds of marriage as a gift from God. In fact,
spouses (albeit, in practice, mainly females) were disciplined if they
did not perform their sexual marital duties, in accordance with 1
Corinthians 7 and other biblical passages. Because of these beliefs,
the Puritans publicly punished drunkenness and sexual relations
outside of marriage.
Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that the
Pilgrims' Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm
foundation for American democracy, and in his view, these Puritans
were hard-working, egalitarian, and studious. The theme of a religious
basis of economic discipline is echoed in sociologist Max Weber's
work, but both de Tocqueville and Weber argued that this discipline
was not a force of economic determinism, but one factor among many
that should be considered when evaluating the relative economic
success of the Puritans. In Hellfire Nation, James A. Morone suggests
that some opposing tendencies within Puritanism—its desire to create a
just society and its moral fervor in bringing about that just society,
which sometimes created paranoia and intolerance for other views—are
at the root of America's current political landscape."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan#The_Puritan_spirit_in_the_United_States
