Sarah Palin's fundamentalist church sponsors Focus on the Family's "pray away the gay" program.

Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

"You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

Palin's conservative Christian views have energized that part of the GOP electorate, which was lukewarm to John McCain's candidacy before he named her as his vice presidential choice. She is staunchly anti-abortion, opposing exceptions for rape and incest, and opposes gay marriage and spousal rights for gay couples.

Well what do you expect from a church that prays for the pipeline, believes the Iraq war is a holy war, and offers a program to turn the Wasilla teens into Christian fascists? (Apparently not forbidding them from drinking, having sex, or misusing firearms however as multiple MySpace pictures have demonstrated.)

I doubt very much that if there are any homosexuals in Wasilla they would ever dare to allow anybody to know. If there is a better example of small town intolerance and homophobia I can honestly say I have no idea what it would be.

So essentially this conference will just be a bunch of religious nuts sitting in a room making insulting comments about "the gays" and getting themselves all pumped to have some alcohol infused heterosexual teenage sex.

Sounds like just another Saturday night in Wasilla, Alaska to me.