Just how tolerant is San Francisco's infamous Castro district? A group bringing Sarah Palin to the Bay Area is about to find out.
In the shadows of the notoriously liberal neighborhood's signature rainbow flag, the conservative Liberty and Freedom Foundation unveiled a billboard announcing the former Alaska governor's arrival in the Bay Area next week.
Why did they do it? The organizers swear they are not trying to offend anyone but instead they needed to expand their conservative base.
"The Castro is supposed to be about a message of tolerance, and we hope that tradition stays,'' Victor Cocchia, executive director of Liberty and Freedom Foundation told the Chronicle's Carla Marinucci. "We were looking for a place to spend our ad dollars, and this came up..and we thought, 'That's what this is all about.'"
The former home of Harvey Milk may not think of Sarah Palin first when it thinks of tolerant politicians. While Palin may not support gay marriage, she says she does have gay friends.
But this is after all a neighborhood where some people burned an effigy of Palin on the night President Barack Obama was elected.
