So I'm guessing your a close-minded Atheist instead of a close-minded christian and that definately makes you better than her! Here's some food for thought. If christians are wrong then your right, and there is nothing after death and the jokes on us. However, if we're right then the unbelievers spend the rest of their non-life in the firey depths of hell. Sorry, I'll take that gamble. I'd personally rather be in heaven or nowhere than burning in HELL. Sounds like everyone just wants to talk crap. So you're all going to freak out over how she answered a few questions back in 1996? How many people say things and then may or may not change their views 5-10 yrs later? I know I've changed alot of veiws since coming to Christ 3 yrs ago and it has turned our house upside down in a good way. So Mr. Bess, you're a Baptist minister and call people to change their minds for Christ on a regular basis;or do you? Does that mean that they can't change their beleifs of the world thereafter? Have you talked to God personally 'bout the dinosaurs? I teach my kids that he created them,guess I'm missed that memo from God. My RSV says he created beasts and other animals. It was a Serpent in Eden not a snake and apparently had legs or something if God cursed it and said, "upon your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat." Ok so NOW it MIGHT be a snake, after-the-fact. Nowhere in my bible does it say Jonah was swallowed by a pretty whale it was a GREAT FISH, possibly prehistoric. I certainly wouldn't want to belong to a church where my past, uneducated beliefs or sins, kept being brought up. That would kinda be like they were never forgiven, like Christs blood was not sufficient. If Palin stands firmly on her beleifs of today then thats what we vote for unless you see her shooting pool in a bar and/or talking out of the other side of her mouth,today or present tense.(and you better have a witness or 2 or 3 with you.) Who put you in the judgement seat against who she is today based on who she was 12 years ago. Are you saying that you'd rather see OBAMA in office? Yeah, he's not scarey at all. If ya like big teeth and a talk show host! R you seriously a Baptist minister? That is scarey! Do you want him in because he's black or 'cause he'd do a good job. We need to stop voting for party, color and sex; and start voting for Godly qualities.The ones they represent today not what they stood for 12 yrs ago. People can and do change all it takes is having God in their heart!