Carol, Thanks for the links. Uh... I'm not sure how to say this to someone who doesn't live in the middle of American Protestant Theology.

Assembly of God is a pretty mainstream outfit (worldwide, 60 million members). They have splinters that aren't. Baptists, Methodists and particularly LDS congregations are even more split by this kind of division. In any case she left Assembly of God in 2002 for a more child-friendly church (info from Wikipedia cause I didn't know much of this stuff, either).

Carol, almost all Politicians have religious affiliations. No sensible person tries to hold Obama responsible for his Chicago minister's consciousness-raising. Mostly, we just don't care what your friends think, just what you do.

Sarah Palin has messages she is pushing right now and they have little to do with religion. Her religion is not how she is going to hurt us, if indeed she does. She focuses real people with real views on the political process. They come to hear her and they become active and they vote. These folks disagree with the principles that guide most of us.

Talking about her religion just distracts us from paying attention to an influential opponent. She is not a good person to dismiss. She is a good person to oppose with better ideas and better thought. If she is foolish or unskilled, opposing her will be easy. It is probably obvious to you that it hasn't been easy so far.