'Evangelicals' Say Palin's Daughter Won't Be an Issue

Liz Halloran / U.S. News & World Report:
Less than two hours after expected Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband announced that their unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, evangelical leaders told U.S. News that they don't believe the revelation will harm the GOP ticket within the conservative faith community. "I don't think it [hurts] at all," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who hailed Palin's nomination.

Posted by Editor at September 3, 2008 04:56 AM