Sex ed: Palin no Dr. Laura

According to an LATimes report,  Sarah Palin is far from the likes of a Dr. Laura Schlesinger or even a John McCain (although I bet this is an area where he just holds his nose and jumps in) on the issue of sex education: “I’m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues,” [Palin] said during a debate in Juneau. Her spokesperson later confirmed that the vice-presidential candidate favors both abstinence and contraception education.  In other words, she lives in the real world – unlike the true-believers who wrote the Republican platform on this issue.  It’s also interesting that the more you hear about Palin, the more down-to-earth she seems, unlike her characterization in the smear emails we’ve all been getting.  I received one last night that alleged she wanted to censor the Harry Potter books while mayor of Wassila,  which is more than ridiculous since she left the mayor’s office before they were published. (Jim Lindgren has more on the fraudulent censorship list at Volokh.  But I must admit that I am still a little concerned that Palin would even consider censorship–if she did–and would like to know more about that.)