My Response to Bristol Palin's Blog Article Reposted from March 27, 2012 "How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes"

My Response to Bristol Palin's Blog Article Reposted from March 27, 2012 "How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes"

May 20, 2014 at 12:27am

(Below is first the article posted by the daughter of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's eldest child, Bristol, who runs a blog on faith and the choices we make with regards to our lives. I read it periodically as I constantly am consuming some book, magazine or newspaper article, or academic journal on history, politics and philosophy. I am also subscribed to her Facebook page, and I find how our younger counterparts within the millennial demographic actually adhere to conviction rather than the consensus of the mainstream. This post, more than two years old as its date will reveal, is her discussion of how she has forgiven herself for her errors in judgment exacerbated by her being a public figure. Many of you may find solace in her words of candor, while others will find reasons to continue issuing harsh criticisms of her moral and intellectual dearth. Regardless, I adhere to the fact that as Aristotle was once quoted to state how integrity requires each of us to value truth over our own friends, and I am unapologetic if it means someone I have known since childhood is no longer an individual with whom I can continue engaging in business as usual due to irreconcilable differences. Miss Palin is one such lady willing to roll the dice, and I consider myself another. The role of the moral absolutist is most malleable in that the principles differ with each individual. I do not judge my critics who disagree with me due to this reason; that is not my job, and I would find myself miserable if I sought to alter everyone's modus operandi on account of my bruised ego. To each his or her own; let us continue living what for each of us is an individual mandate to live our life of virtue.)

Bristol Palin and her son, Tripp

How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes

March 27, 2012 by Bristol Palin

(Link to her blog: Patheos.com: Bristol Palin's Blog)

Last week, I was amazed at all the people who read my posts and left comments. (This post about expecting a call from the President got almost 2,800 comments and was shared 131,000 times on this site alone… And, no, my phone didn’t ring.)

Most of the comments were wonderful and supportive. (I’ve addressed some of the not-so-nice comments here.)  But there’s one constant criticism I didn’t talk about:  some of you insist on calling me a hypocrite. After all, I became a mother before I walked down the aisle – how can I talk about waiting until marriage for sex?

I find it strange that the culture rightfully applauds former drug addicts who warn children of the dangers of drug use. They are happy to listen to former alcoholics talk about how they finally are living a clean life. But when it comes to me talking about waiting until marriage for sex, it’s almost like people want me to slink away in shame… unable to show my face in public again because of my past mistakes.

I want this blog to be a place where we can all be honest, so let me start. I’ve struggled with feelings of guilt and shame. I know (judging from my inbox) many of you have too. A Christian counselor named Ed Welch helpfully writes about what to do after you’ve made a huge mistake:

It feels so right – so spiritual – to live with regrets. It means you feel bad for the wrong things you have done or think you have done, and that sounds like a good thing. If you forget those wrongs, you are acting like they were no big deal.

…

We live with regrets because we think we should. We think it’s the right thing to do—that it is our duty before God. But…

The Kingdom of Heaven is regret-free. The truth is that the triune God liberates us from past regrets. His will is being done. Bank on it. Neither your human limitations nor your sins hinder the good plans of your sovereign Father.

Let’s go one important step further. It is God’s will that you jettison past regrets.

So what does that mean?

Stop.

Stop living under a cloud of guilt, stop wondering what life could have been like had you made better decisions, and stop beating yourself up over that thing you’ve done.

Read the rest of his post here, and get over the regret you’ve been carrying for far too long.

I have.

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(My Response to Miss Palin)

Miss Palin,

I first want to laud your efforts to put at ease the minds of all God’s children upon their darkest hours experienced due to a regrettable act that would render scorn and derision from those within the private sector's contemporaries. For you, your pregnancy served as the source of ostracism from an unscrupulous socialist left-wing fringe that truthfully opposed this news due to its desire to control who has the right to live. Having adopted a perspective of the world that only God may judge us upon the appropriate point in time, it is not anyone else’s place to apply the same in kind to you, to ridicule you or even to support me, or to follow suit with respect to the rest of our society.

We reside today in a world where the heaviest premium is placed always upon the concept that if someone is arrested for a felony like armed robbery, rape or capital murder, those guilty of committing crimes automatically are victims of the establishment which espouses that piety and its visions of only the best within each individual, but instead is a prejudiced institution. If you eat any meat, you will doubtlessly be declared a murderer of animals by rabid PETA activists, that essentially you are complicit of being a solo contributor to the eventual extinction of all animals, or in the words of George Orwell from Animal Farm:

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”

When special interests are allowed to dominate polity, it stands to reason how the majority of our elected officials, inclusive too the ones we so champion, are accepting bribes and possibly are accomplices or directly responsible for illegal participation in money laundering schemes with organized crime. Most of these special interests lean in support to those of abortions. Planned Parenthood is most pervasive in my mind in how the organization has declared war on the male establishment, declaring it to be generally a demographic of chauvinists; and those among the nation's women who are devout followers of Jesus Christ and believe in the sanctity of all human life. Unfortunately, as history’s lessons are all but completely lost upon yours and my generation thanks to our inherently flawed system of public education and will only grow worse under Common Core, few have ever been taught of the evil that was the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, and her designs upon birth control as a tool for sterilization of society’s undesirables, or the infamous practice she introduced to the world in earnest pre-Hitler known as eugenics. And the figures we may use to evaluate Ms. Sanger's evil are most frightening (Courtesy of The Washington Times, May 4, 2014)

Margaret Sanger, eugenist and founder of Planned Parenthood

1. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”

2. In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).

3. Stated Ms. Sanger further, “While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit. They are excellent means of meeting a certain phase of the situation, but I believe in regard to these, as in regard to other eugenic means, that they do not go to the bottom of the matter.” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review). Further still, “Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review). Also, “Stop our national habit of human waste.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 6).

4. In support for a regulatory body for controlling the world’s population, she stated, “The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (“A Plan for Peace,” 1932).

5. To me, her most offensive remark from the perspective of my being the older brother of soon-to-be 30 year old autistic woman could only be this in the 1957 interview with Mike Wallace: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world — that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit.”

6. For the socialist far-left to declare itself the lone platform that can secure for all a just and viable peace and tranquility, it can only be achieved through dictating terms behind who and how the population will live, as well as how many. An estimated 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of black or Hispanic communities.

6. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance report revealed that between 2007 and 2010, nearly 36 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black children, even though black Americans make up only 13 percent of our population. A further 21 percent of abortions were performed on Hispanics, and 7 percent more on other minority groups, for a total of 64 percent of U.S. abortions tragically performed on minority groups.

The socialist far-left relishes its self-proclamation as the platform with the moral mandate to care for the poor and to provide social sanctuary for the role of absolute feminist equity, but at the cost of 54 million abortions domestically since World War II, Ms. Sanger was responsible for the deaths of more people by eugenics by some 54 times over the total accumulation of war casualties our military has incurred throughout its history. They might call it "trimming the branches of our nation's tree," but I am only willing to declare this vile institution to be genocide. Institutionally, the principle of our society's public demagogues with its moral imperative is abundantly clear: the unapologetic slaughtering of millions of unborn children leans very heavily in the highest percentage (64 percent) comprise of our minority racial demographics, our brothers and sisters in God regardless of their religion. They were also those who spoke in opposition to your mother and, as a result, indirectly to you as if due to your status still as an adolescent, you were not competent enough, Miss Palin, to listen to their harangues. If Planned Parenthood today remains true before its founding tenets, your brother Trigg would have never been born. You were criticized not because you are a Christian, but because you stand for something; socialists stand for nothing other than to sell their souls to acquire the next vote, only to take even that right away. You stand for one and all to have the God-begotten rights to the Founding Fathers' concept of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Through you and your mother, the rest of America’s women with the faith to believe this now-very radical notion that we have the right to simply be born continue to be chastised and will always be under attack by an immoral intelligentsia. They may be Christian or Jewish, Hindu or Buddhist, Muslim or Sikh, or simply a humanist, but the matter of adherence to a chosen faith is a mere impediment of the mind for the conceived ovums guilty only of being born to a person with a true sense of the moral imperative; it makes no difference even if the mother and father are both atheists. A person can be upstanding morally and still be irreligious. If our children are likely to be taught good virtue and moral principles, they stand to be the future enemies of the state who well may topple a corrupt regime. Socialists do not want that, nor any other variety of independent thought processing in which they do not have direct control in harvesting. And if socialists have it their way, we will have no legal right at all granted to the free exercises of any other faith but to serve as pawns to worship our statist rulers.

Thank you again for being a lady of excellent scruples and intellect, Miss Palin, and for upholding the Jeffersonian principle of building an “aristocracy of virtue.” I pray for the day when the conservative establishment finally realizes how much it owes your mother and the entire Palin family for providing the hard echo from those of us residing in Middle America who vote, but possess no other realistic measure for lending our voices in dissent without being ignored or ridiculed as extremists as opposed to serving as the sycophants for the president. More importantly, I wish you and your family well in continuing to return the role of conviction statesmanship to the party that once stood for principle over any absolute compliance to the state. Upon the setting of the final sun's conflict with a corrupt order, a patriot will always shine his brightest as he assumes the role of the polemicist to the establishment he intends to achieve unbridled liberty from the shackles of slavery. And as "mankind" is mutually inclusive for both men and women, so too is your role as one of America's greatest patriots born into a family of many others.

Yours in Spirit,

Jonathan Henderson (aka. "The Son of Liberty")