The wedding of Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin’s daughter, to her controversial boyfriend Levi Johnston is a shock. After all he has said about her mother, she has decided to marry Levi anyway.

This marriage is already dead before it starts. Bristol Palin’s forgiveness is not necessarly her parents’ forgiveness. As parents, what can they say? Accept their daughter’s choice and keep their fingers crossed? Do they have a choice? As the Baganda of Uganda say, “Parents give birth to the bodies of their children, but not always to their characters.”