Gracie,
What do you know of Palin's "far right religious leanings"? I don't know if she wants to impose sharia law. Now that would be far right. I have heard that she is against abortion and for premarital abstinence. I don't know if you consider these to be "far right" but they are tenets of the Catholic Church, despite what a lot of the cafeteria Catholics profess here. These beliefs are also held by a large number on mainline protestant religions as well as a large number of Jews. Radical, I think not. Any other fringe beliefs.

You regret that there is too much thinking that is not open minded, you say "here", but if I may, I'll address a wider spectrum. I believe one of the troubles with society is that there is too much open-mindedness, that people refuse to accept that some things are just wrong. We have become a society that is so concerned with inclusion
that we accept anything. We either refuse to or are incapable of making our own value judgments. We have adopted the philosophy that who am I to judge something or someone. They may have different values. That philosophy is :edit:. If something is wrong, it's wrong.