From her interview with Hugh Hewitt, via NRO’s The Corner:
HEWITT: Do you think the mainstream media and the left understands your religious faith, Governor Palin?
PALIN: I think that there’s a lot of mocking of my personal faith, and my personal faith is very, very simple. I don’t belong to any church. I do have a strong belief in God, and I believe that I’m a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God’s hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me. What else do we have but guidance that we would seek from a Creator? That’s about as simple as it gets with my faith, and I think that there is a lot of mocking of that. And you know, so be it, though I do have respect for those who have differing views than I do on faith, on religion. I’m not going to mock them, and I would hope that they would kind of I guess give me the same courtesy through this of not mocking a person’s faith, but maybe perhaps even trying to understand a little bit of it.
So, what do you know? She’s non-denominational. Now, naturally, I pray she’ll eventually return to her baptismal faith, but in the end her faith is an issue between her and God, and none of us have the right to interfere. What has been really disgusting is the way the so-called tolerant left has attempted to demonize Governor Palin because, once upon a time in her faith journey, she attended an Assembly of God church. Whatever one may say about that denomination, its not like the people in charge were race-baiting con-artists who have in their pews people who sit there for 20 years and still claim they don’t get it…
Sarah Palin is my sister in Christ – and like all Christians, she is sustained in her daily tasks by her faith in the love and mercy of God. It is what keeps us on track no matter what life throws at us. It is what keeps us looking for the good in all situations…and thus leads Sarah Palin to rejoice in the gift of her Down’s Syndrome baby and leads me to rejoice that I am able to serve my aged father who’s health declines steadily. The extraordinarily nasty attacks launched on Palin do hurt – but they mostly hurt in the way they reveal how sad and locked into despair so many people are today. If Palin is any sort of a Christian – and I believe she’s one of the better examples – they she pities those who attack her, and prays they will see the light. I don’t know what Sarah does to turn anger into forgiveness, but each Christian has their way of doing it (for me its asking for the intervention of the Blessed Virgin), but turn it she does, and it shows in the fact that after weeks of cruel slander, she’s just the same sweet yet tough as nails “mom/wife/Governor” we GOPers fell for at the start.
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