I Did Not Have Sex With Sarah Palin!

"How religious a book is Going Rogue? The opening vignette tells of Sarah Palin happening upon the Alaska Right to Life booth at the Alaska State Fair and discovering that her 7-year-old daughter, Piper, is still starring in the group's posters, pictured with "pretend angel wings fastened to her soft shoulders." The group had been using Piper as its poster child since she was an infant. And the book's very last paragraph is a long thank you to God, who receives more ink than anyone in the acknowledgments section.

Indeed, Going Rogue is written as much for Christian readers as for political junkies, and it will help establish Palin as much as a Christian figure as a political one. Some of the book's faith-based highlights:

— In the opening pages, Palin uses the story about encountering the state fair's Right to Life booth to frame herself more as a conservative Christian activist than a Republican:

A staunch advocate of every child's right to be born, I was prolife enough for the grassroots RTL [Right to Life] folks to adopt Piper as their poster child, but I wasn't politically connected enough for the state GOP machine to allow the organization to endorse me in early campaigns.... In the RTL booth, I smiled, dropped some dollars into the contribution can, and didn't care who might be watching, including local reporters.

— Palin expresses love for a gay friend but makes clear her opinion that the friend's sexual orientation is a choice, a widely shared view among Christian conservatives:

That's when I told them about Tilly, my junior high friend and college roommate, who, after college, decided to openly live the lifestyle she chose with her partner. To me, she was still Tilly. I loved her dearly. "