Thank you for Dana Serrano’s article in July, “Just When Does Life Begin?” I was surprised at the concept of adoption of frozen embryos. I did not know this was possible or that it had already been done. What a wonderful thing for genetic parents to do with “leftover” or “planned-over” children.

It saddens me that in the fertility medical practice, more embryos than are needed must be created just to have enough, but the fact that they can be carried to birth by adoptive parents is  great news. And, its clear why we do not hear about this option in the liberal media. But why not from President Bush’s podium? I would think he would jump at the opportunity to declare adoption as a desirable option for genetic parents.

Thank you for your work.

         Judy Nordquist

         Escondido

Can we stop and think for a moment? In a few centuries of spiritual enlightment, some folks have totally abandoned critical thinking skills to embrace ludicrous lies about the deity of Jesus Christ.

For instance, around the 1800s, a new church began teaching Jesus is “a special angel.” Around the same era, another new church decided Jesus is the “spiritual brother of Satan.” Still older religions historically maintain Jesus is a “prophet.” Excuse me, but don’t people examine concrete historical and scriptural facts pertaining to Jesus? What ever happened to individual thinking and critical analysis? What is with the group thinking? It’s one thing to all believe a red light is a red light, but if a group breaks off and starts claiming it’s a green light, someone’s going to get hit by a truck. Hence, make sure what you believe is true.

Consequently, over the years attacks on the divine nature of Christ are repeatedly loosed on non-Bible reading individuals. Why? Because many people don’t know the truth about Jesus. Ironically, scriptures clearly illuminate Jesus Christ of the New Testament as God Almighty of the Old Testament.

 Look, you don’t need to be a biblical scholar to understand Jesus is God. Open a Bible and start reading. It’s that simple. If that’s not an option, buy a Bible on tape.

And find a Bible reading church. Don’t get fooled into thinking you need additional books to supplement the Bible. You absolutely don’t. God made it very clear, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable.”

What are you waiting for?

         Kim Oakley

         Valley Center

Having been grandparents and born-again Christians in Southern California for many years; my wife and I have noticed a trend in many of our churches — a strong orientation toward youth. Next Sunday in church, do a mental calculation of the average age of the members of your church praise and worship team. (Don’t be surprised if it falls in the teens!) Notice the band playing behind them now — instead of the piano and/or guitar we had in our day. You know, back when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth.

Now, I love our youth as much as anyone. But, have you noticed how cheese gets better with age? Have you noticed that when cheese is young it is called Mild — but when it is sufficiently aged, it is called Sharp!

Maybe we grandparents should start wearing a label — SHARP! — as in knowledge gained through years of experience; wisdom gained through having done that before, even if I failed; caring gained through knowing what the young still have to go through; and Love because we want to help and guide them through that growth from Mild to Sharp with as few scars as possible.

         Bill Gray

         (Via Internet)

President Bush put Iraqis on front lines instead of on soccer fields and coffee shops in Baghdad!

President Bush, I ask you to immediately stop American deployment of troops attacking Najaf and other centers of Iraqi insurgency. Let the Iraqis tend to the cleansing of their Mosques and streets. You are harming American image in Arab lands as Iraqis are celebrating victory on soccer field in Greece.

It appears as though in February Iraq was once again eligible to play in Olympics. So from February to August, about 200 members of a soccer squad would be trained. Instead of learning soccer they could have had 6 months of military training and they could have attacked Najaf instead of US troops.

Celebratory firing of guns in the streets of Baghdad in joy over soccer feats when these same guns should have been firing against insurgents? Allawi has America just where Allawi wants America — the U.S. to be doing the dirty work and killing Arabs which should be done by Iraqis.

Iraqis play soccer as Americans die in Najaf. I say it’s time for U.S. disengagement and let 23 million Iraqis cleanup 10,000 insurgents.

Every day the President sends Americans to die for Iraqis he loses more and more votes.

         Dr. Norman Mann

         San Diego

Dana Serrano Chisholm’s article, entitled “Just When Does Life Begin?,” in your July edition was very good. It is remarkable that in our day so many cannot make the connection that though the unborn at the earliest stages of life is very, very small, nonetheless has to be very, very human. They could not be anything less, otherwise they would never turn into a fetus, an infant, a teen or a full grown adult. In fact, this shows that adults owe their existence to the fact that at one time they were embryos. Full-grown adults do need embryos to perpetuate the human race! This seems like the obvious, but many miss this point of the necessity of every stage of development.

Your article brings out the testimony of the mother which stated that the mother may provide the home for the child in her womb, but the child already existed. If they did not, ultimately, nothing would have come of the adopted embryo Gracie or any of us for that matter.

God bless you in your fine work for the unborn,

         Phil Magnan

         Director Biblical Family

         Advocates, San Diego