The election ranks as a crossroads for our history and may signal the rise or fall of the Republic. In G.W. Bush we do not have either a Ronald Reagan or a Dwight Eisenhower. Yet the choice must be made. On the other side is a completely untrustworthy and mealy-mouthed poseur, a man who accused our troops of atrocities when he did not know what he was talking about. Kerry is despicable and I shall not waste any more words on this pretentious oaf.

The Republican Party is an organization I have very little use for. However, it has made correct decisions for us as Christians and that is all we need to know to make the decision in this election. In areas of pro-life Bush has done well. He has much to do in the future but he is a proponent of life against Kerry, the pro-abortion candidate. In terms of the struggle against the enemies of the United States, I know that the majority of enlisted men and officers of the United States are unanimously for Bush. The consensus of the preponderance of those whose aim is the aggrandizement of the United States and the hegemony of our ideas throughout the world is that Bush is the only choice.

Every Christian man and woman, no matter what their circumstances, must get out to vote and if this is not done the sworn enemies of our Savior will carry the day. Just as in the last analysis, force of arms had to be resorted to in order to save Christian Europe, so in this struggle, the Christian voters must turn out in numbers greater than ever before to carry the day.

In 1948, Pope Pius XII appealed to the Roman Catholic world to do everything to stop the Communists from seizing control of Italy, the very bastion of the Roman faith. The Roman Catholics of the world responded and the Communists went down to defeat, never to threaten Italy again. Later, the pontiff declared that all Communists must be driven out of the Roman communion and he declared them anathema. To this day the Communists of the world hate the name of Pius XII.

In like manner we must exert every effort to elect Bush, if only for the fact that his opponent would drag in all of the worst enemies of Christendom. It is not that we are Republicans or anything else. We are forced to consider the horrific consequences of a Kerry victory for all that we value. We are forced to choose Bush by the indisputable fact that Kerry represents the most loathsome anti-Christian forces in our history. They shall not pass.

         Michael Suozzi, Ph.D.

         La Mesa

Proposition 71 is the most important proposition that California Christians must stand against in this upcoming election, which is only days away!

Proposition 71 is a Clone and Kill Unborn Children Proposition that will cost us not only billions of dollars, but cost hundreds of thousands of unborn children’s lives – all to fund research that cannot guarantee that it will benefit anyone.

(It is very legal for churches to advocate for or against issues.)

Please stand for Christ and the unborn.

         Phil Magnan, director

         Biblical Family Advocates

         San Diego

I recently ran across Dana Serrano Chilholm’s column about the grant funding for embryo adoption awareness. I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading it and hearing about your part as well as your perspective.

I recently went through a training for the Infant Adoption Awareness campaign and learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it as well. I volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center here in my home town as well as being a labor doula and a nurse.

I am also a mother of a two-year-old that we conceived through in vitro, just three years ago. I was married for ten years and had three wonderful children. I had a tubial legation after my youngest son and then two years later their father and I divorced. I married a man that didn’t have children and my physician suggested that we do in vitro verses surgery to repair my tubes. Since I had never had infertility issues, I responded very well to the medications. In fact, my ovaries over stimulated. They retrieved over 30 eggs off of my ovaries. (Typically they aim for 8-10.) They transferred two and one took and that is how we have our two year old, Aaron! However, it leaves us with 15 embryos. Only 17 grew enough to be frozen and that’s why we have only 15.

My OB was very wise because he sat my husband and myself down before we began the process and told us how we needed to discuss some things before we moved any further in the process. For one, he told us that we should decide first how far we would be willing to go, as far as how many attempts. He also told us that we needed to decide what we would like to do with the embryos, should we have any left over. That’s when I started researching. Then one morning on my way to work, I was listening to Dr. James Dobson and he talked about Snowflake, the embryo adoption program through Nightlight Christian Adoption Services. I knew right then, that was our answer. I called my husband and told him all about it and we discussed it more and both agreed, that’s how we wanted to handle it, if we should have any left over.

I will be turning 37, so I feel as though my days are numbered as far as being successful with in vitro. I am in the process of loosing some weight and we are planning on attempting one more time some time next year. After that, we know that we will donate our other embryos.

I went to Nightlight’s website and was looking at the pictures of the babies and I was over come by bitter sweet thoughts and feelings. I truly believe and I know that my husband agrees as well that we would be very selfish to keep them frozen indefinitely. If we donate, then we are giving another couple a chance to be parents and giving them the opportunity to experience pregnancy, something that we both enjoyed experiencing together. I really don’t know why I am sharing all of this with you, but after reading Dana’s article, I just felt like you might enjoy knowing that it’s being read and appreciated.

         Angie Layman

         Texas

President Bush has failed miserably in promoting an energy policy and program, which would have eliminated the wanton and reckless oil magnate scheme leading to oppressive fuel cost. First call on Iraq oil should be available to United States and coalition forces at below market rates. Iraqi oil should be treated as a large American oil reserve with the sale proceeds going to pay for much of the cost of freeing Iraq from Saddam.

To keep pouring money raped from the hard working Americans to pay for Bush’s war makes no sense.

         Dr. Norman E. Mann

         San Diego