# Sarah Palin exposed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-exposed/596425 "2011-09-15T19:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-exposed/596425/65 "2011-09-16T09:29:56Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Dunno. Is he a “don’t make mistakes like me” counselor or a “follow the path of virtue like me” counselor? > > I require consistency. If he has some unknown basis for carving out gambling from the standard moral-scold menu… well, as I said, it’s unknown until he chooses to reveal it. If his basis is the obvious one of self-interest… well, his dentist might want to recommend a switch to unsweetened porridge. What is the standard menu? Where is it listed, that I might learn it? I absolutely disagree with your inclusion of gambling as a standard menu item. Perhaps if Bennett’s religion had some tenet against gambling, you could make the claim that by pious representations he was a faithful XXXXX he was implicitly claiming he avoided gambling. But he belongs to a faith that routinely raises money by Friday Night Bingo Nights. (and since you value consistency, will you ever admit that your claims that if Virginia banned same-sex marriage it would see a wave of unprosecutable domestic violence, or “extra wringer” barriers. > [@Defense of Marriage in Virginia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defense-of-marriage-in-virginia/378024/37): > > I consider it a matter of established fact, based on what happened in Ohio, that many victims of domestic violence would (at best) find it necessary to go through an extra wringer to obtain those protections or (at worst) be denied them altogether. > > Even the former is unacceptable, given that it would be inflicted as a side effect of an unnecessary measure to ward off a nonexistent problem. Since you value consistency, and all. That “established fact” never actually happened, did it? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-exposed/596425)._