Bristol Palin, the daughter of former
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has criticized the media for asking how
she would feel if she were paired up with a gay dancer on ABC's
Dancing With The Stars: All-Stars.
She was asked the
question at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
“I like gays,”
she told reporters. “I'm not homophobic. Just because I'm for
traditional marriage.”
In a blog post on
Wednesday, Palin called the question “silly.”
“If I can't dance
with Mark [Ballas], I'd love to dance with a gay partner, a straight
partner, or anything in between.”
“But the media
can't seem to figure this out. In their simplistic minds, the fact
that I'm a Christian, that I believe in God's plan for marriage,
means that I must hate gays and must hate to even be in their
presence. Well, they were right about one thing: there was hate in
that media room, but the hate was theirs, not mine,” she
wrote.
“To the Left,
'tolerance' means agreeing with them on, well, everything. To me,
tolerance means learning to live and work with each other when we
don't agree – and won't ever agree. So if I have a gay dance
partner, we may have some interesting discussions about morality,
marriage, and whether the government made him a great dancer because
it built the roads that he drove on to dance practice.”