Same Sex Marriage, Sarah Palin Reason for Wasilla Evangelical Church Fire?

Other Arsons and Hate Crimes Don't Shed Any Light

Details about the Wasilla Church Fire

According to WMC-TV news, Governor Sarah Palin's church received $1 million damage from an arson suspected fire, Friday evening, December 13^th. No one was hurt, even though the fire was set while several people including two children were inside. Governor Sarah Palin was not inside when the Wasilla church fire was started. Governor Palin apologized for potentially being the cause of the Wasilla church fire started in minus 20-degree F weather. A multi-agency task force has been established to investigate the Wasilla church fire. That task force will make the determination about whether the Wasilla church fire was caused by arson.

Same Sex Marriage Motive for the Wasilla Church Fire

One motive proposed by WMC_TV for the Wasilla church fire may be Sarah Palin's opinions on same sex marriage, documented by the Human Rights Campaign during the election. So far, other churches that came forward during an April 2007 vote on benefits for same sex partners in Anchorage have not been targeted. Although a bill, according to an Alaska state law opinion, to change the Alaska constitution on the subject of same sex marriage was proposed by Norman Rokeberg in 1995, a legal opinion by the state attorney general informed him that Alaskan state common law would not allow same sex marriage according to a. In 1998 voters in Alaska rejected a bid to allow same sex marriage, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. More recently, voters voted on same sex benefits, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

Because the issue of same sex marriage has been voted upon, it seems unlikely that this is the motive without further evidence.

Hate Crime Motive for the Wasilla Church Fire