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I agree with you completely. This country has been allowing people to come here precisely because they were useful. To punish THEM and not the presidents, governors, etc. who ignored them all these years would be totally immoral. The flood of illegals has already been slowed down, and we need to continue to stop it. Cinton and Obama especially were egregiously guilty of encouraging people to come here — for the purposes of the Democrat Party.

Hollywood has been poisoned by homosexuals and sexual anarchists. Families would attend more movies together if there were more family-friendly and intelligent films to see. Hollywood is killing itself with its leftist, anti-American politics and sexual deviance.

There are many reasons I thank God for having delivered me from the legalistic Catholic Church. This “mortal sin” issue is one of them. As if God is keeping a calculator and “sin ledger” on each person! We create our own eternal judgment, according to how we care for others and love God. Our Heavenly Father isn’t the one to decide where our heart and spirit ends up. We do. Sorry to offend staunch Catholics, but I’m so grateful God delivered me from what was a mental prison for me. Our entire family is delivered, and it’s a blessing.

I must respectfully state that I do not believe that God willed this evil, or any evil, to happen. God allows people to do evil because God cannot/will not intervene in our free will and responsibility. But to say that anything like this was “God’s will” is disturbing to me. God wills us to do good, reject evil, and to love one another above all. When we do not, God grieves with those we hurt. We are not pawns, we are free agents.

You are GREAT! Thank you for the inspirational video. There is also the reality that children should have the right under the law to be adopted by parents of opposite genders. Only within that God-ordained family unit can a child experience his or her optimal development. When gays point to Britney Spears to denigrate heterosexual parenting, they are trying to divert attention from themselves. Two men can never give a mother’s love to a child. Two women can’t teach a little boy how to grow into a man. While single parents are often heroes, it’s definitely not desirable. The law needs to protect children and not force them into undesirable home situations, such as homosexual couples.

The unborn child is not a “citizen,” and you know it. One must have a birth certificate in order to be a citizen. No one gets a Social Security number until he/she is born. And, yes, the baby does belong to the body of the mother. There is no way to separate the fetus/baby from the mother until the fetus/baby is viable.

I denounce abortion, generally speaking, in moral terms. Just as I denounce adultery, fornication. Yet I do not want to make those immoral acts crimes (again). The government has no power to control immoral acts. However, churches, religious institutions, and public opinion can cause people to change their behavior.

I’m not a pro-abortionist, but I am tired of hearing from Republicans and others who claim to believe in freedom that they want to go back to criminalizing ALL abortions. And I’m tired of people on the “right” demonizing people who disagree with them.

Abortion is a truly unique civil and legal issue. It may seem quite simple to you but I don’t think it’s that simple.

It’s also a question of who has the right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term? I do not advocate for abortion at all. I quit supporting a Republican pro-choice group because they wouldn’t denounce late-term abortion.

But the body of a woman is not the “property” of the state just because she becomes pregnant. If I had become pregnant at the age of 45 and had learned of a Down Syndrome condition, I do not know how I would have reacted. But I DO know that neither you, nor any other person outside my family, should be able to force me and my husband to make the choice according to your religious beliefs.

There is no way to compare the questions raised by abortion to murder, although I do agree with those who call late-term abortion “infanticide,” because of the obvious ability of the fetus/child to survive outside the womb. But before that stage of gestation, the mother’s body and the fetus/child are inseparable legal entities, in my opinion.

After birth, the child can survive as long as any adult is available to care for him/her. But the mother’s body does not belong to the state, either before, during or after pregnancy. Sorry.

I respect your belief, but I do not share it. I believe that human life is much more than just physical, it is also spiritual. The human being gains his/her eternal spiritual life at the moment he/she takes his first breath outside the womb. Before that moment, it is a life in potential. That is my personal religious belief.

If a society really accepted that ALL fertilized eggs were FULLY realized human beings, then why do not the churches baptize all stillborns, all miscarriages, since Baptism is required for “eternal life”? Why did not early, staunchly Christian Americans give names to and record stillbirths in their Bibles?

I do not scorn your beliefs at all. I do respect them. But I do not share them. And, furthermore, your beliefs (and mine) about the beginning of human life are at core theological. Thus state and federal governments should keep their clumsy paws off this personal, ultimately religious issue. It must be resolved in the court of public opinion.

I have a question: What do you want to happen in regard to the abortion LAWS? I assume you want to see a country and world in which abortion doesn’t happen at all, but how do you propose to work toward that ideal?

I believe the government and its laws should not intrude upon a woman’s body until the fetus is viable (the last trimester). That does not mean I think abortion is good or desirable. But I do not want the government telling women who are two, three or four months pregnant that they must, under penalty of prison, carry a pregnancy to term.

For example, if a 45-year old learns she is carrying a fetus with chromosal deformities, it is no business of the state or federal government if she decides to terminate the pregnancy.

The government should stay out of this issue unless there is another viable life at stake.

I think you can, but only if the Muslims don't take the Koran literally nor their religion too seriously. IN other words, as long as they are not fundamentalists. In every religion, there are the "moderates," who don't think too deeply about religious issues and just want to go about their lives finding happiness through good family and other relationships. They want to live well, not go hungry and raise healthy, happy children.

The problem with Islam arises whenever people start seeking deeper meaning in the Koran and the Muslim religion. In other words, when they become "idealistic" and unsatisfied with a "normal" life. When Christian youth turn to their scripture, they usually start engaging in postive, other-directed service. They try to clean up their lives with Jesus as their guide, knowing that he was a man of peace who told people not to judge others.

When Islam youth turn "idealistic" and literalist in their religion, they often turn to negative, judgmental leaders. They turn their lives around and pray avidly, chastise their bodies through fasting, but allow their hearts and minds to become infested with self-righteous rage at those who don't live as "purely" as they.

What a contrast. One religious founder, Jesus, let himself be killed so that others might live, forbade his followers to seek vengenance, and inspired disciples who also let themselves be killed so that others might be saved. They tried to love their enemies and pray for those who persecuted them. Jesus' kingdom was not of this world.

The other religious founder, Muhammad, came to believe that Jesus didn't really die on the cross and that such a death was "unworthy" of a prophet. He created a mythology in which it was okay to murder, rob, enslave other people if they were "unbelievers." He personally engaged in violence and allowed his disciples to do the same. He "revealed" a teaching supposedly from God which was patently false -- that by murder, revenge, and violence, the Kingdom of God could be established on this earth.

If a Muslim reads this and says, "You don't know what you are talking about. ARe you a Muslim? Have you studied the Koran or the life of the 'prophet'?" To this I would simply say, "Jesus Christ taught people how to recognize true teachers from false ones. He said to look at the results of their teachings. 'By their fruits you shall know them.'"

I have looked at the fruits of Islam and have seen that they are rotten to the core. I have looked at the fruits of Christ's religion and have seen the highest, best civilizations in world history.

I reject Muhammad and his religion and pray for good people of all nationalities to simply look at his fruits. A good tree cannot bear rotten fruit but Muhammad's tree has borne nasty, hateful, blood-soaked self-righteousness. That tree is finally grown high and tall enough for the whole world to see its fruits: terrorism, destruction, and hate, female subjugation, family dysfunction, and economic poverty. This is not from God, it is not good for people, but rather something to spit out of your mouth.

It doesn't matter if these particular people like the speech. It's being broadcast on all the cable channels and the truly important people -- grassroots -- can see GW for themselves. He's right-on about education and the faith-based initiative, and Americans need to be reminded of that. To heck with the NAACP -- stupid 19th century leftists -- but the black people of THIS century need to learn the truth and GW's speech was good for that.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.

I was in Massachusetts this past weekend and visited a friend who has been working with pro-family groups the past three years, especially Focus on the Family (James Dobson's group). She explained to me that tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12th, the Mass. legislature is scheduled to vote on whether or not to put on the ballot in November 2008 a referendum on gay marriage.

Only 1/4 of the Mass. legislature has to vote for this referendum, which means only 50 legislators. BUT they have to repeat this legislative vote once more next year (2007). IF 1/4 of the legislators in Mass. vote YES -- to put the gay marriage issue to a vote of the people in 2008 -- and they vote YES two years in a row, then it will indeed go to the people of Massachusetts.

Of course, the people of Mass., by a large majority, want to protect the traditional definition of marriage as one man, one woman. So the gays of Mass. know they will lose if it is ever allowed to come before the people.

I ask all here on FreeRepublic to please pray (if you are so inclined) for the legislators of Massachusetts to vote YES for the people's referendum on Wednesday, July 12th.

Also, in case anybody here actually lives in Massachusetts, would you please, please call your state legislator and voice your approval of traditional marriage?

If there were no other reason, the most fundamental reason is the most important: Children cannot come into this world without a biological mother and father. They cannot function properly either, in the most healthy and productive way, without a loving mother and father. Of course, no law can force all heterosexual familes to be good for children, but the law should never work AGAINST public acknowledgement of the needs (and RIGHTS) of kids.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not give up on Massachusetts. There are many good, decent, God-loving people there who need to be supported. Also, don't descend to gay-bashing. Just uphold the positive, assert the rights and needs of the most vulnerable people in society (children), and stand firm. God is the author of the laws of Creation, and no human society can long thwart those laws and continue.

Thank you.