I Really Think She Just Doesn't Get It

From Dan Savage, a story that's hit several places today:

Christian Broadcasting Network: On Constitutional marriage amendment , are, are you for something like that?

Palin: I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that’s where we would go because I don’t support gay marriage. I’m not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can’t do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that’s casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it’s the foundation of our society is that strong family and that’s based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.

If you fight your way past the word salad, you start to get a glimpse of the full scope of the cognitive dissonance. Sorry, Sarah, but saying you're not going to be judging while judging doesn't impress me at all. Or maybe it does, in all the wrong ways.

And I suspect she really does not understand the fundamental moral vacuum involved in putting people's fundamental rights to a popular vote.