tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post5798753229461714996..comments2023-07-04T10:10:25.205-04:00Comments on Apologia: Conversion TimeWilliam Lusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15928946919078483848noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-76578312499998688942008-09-13T04:01:00.000-04:002008-09-13T04:01:00.000-04:00Did you get the hint, Francis? Alaiyo is a girl.Did you get the hint, Francis? Alaiyo is a girl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-45088815881017793342008-09-12T22:43:00.000-04:002008-09-12T22:43:00.000-04:00'Sokay, Bill. Since I happened to agree with what ...'Sokay, Bill. Since I happened to agree with what you said, it was easy enough just to say so. I sometimes get bogged down in details, which I know can be annoying.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-83569875764894059482008-09-12T19:14:00.000-04:002008-09-12T19:14:00.000-04:00Sorry for getting snippy, Lydia. I was in a foul m...Sorry for getting snippy, Lydia. I was in a foul mood due to other things. <BR/><BR/>Francis, you and Beth will turn me into an optimist yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-65752843010289955702008-09-12T17:47:00.000-04:002008-09-12T17:47:00.000-04:00Alaiyo is certainly right, Bill, not only in his j...Alaiyo is certainly right, Bill, not only in his judgement on the compelling nature of the case that you make, but also that we cannot know what ground the Lord has already prepared and which awaits only a word in season for its seed and ultimate fruit. Good work. FrancisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-9140987235976883702008-09-12T08:50:00.000-04:002008-09-12T08:50:00.000-04:00Well said.Well said.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-63383865293582614052008-09-12T00:50:00.000-04:002008-09-12T00:50:00.000-04:00Since the Senate will be solidly controlled by the...<I>Since the Senate will be solidly controlled by the Dems, I doubt the 50-50 scenario would come up.</I><BR/><BR/>It's as likely as your scenario, the likelihood of either being irrelevant to the point I was making. I don't vote based on scenarios. I vote based on where someone stands.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-44167557985775436162008-09-11T09:42:00.000-04:002008-09-11T09:42:00.000-04:00Since the Senate will be solidly controlled by the...Since the Senate will be solidly controlled by the Dems, I doubt the 50-50 scenario would come up. My greatest concern is that if McCain wins Palin's own position will be changed or else the whole issue will move past so fast that her total opposition will come to seem irrelevant to herself and to almost everyone else. Here seems to me a likely scenario (in the still-unlikely event of a McCain win): Federal ESCR funding on leftover IVF embryos passes and is signed during a McCain presidency. Palin subsequently becomes President when McCain bows out due to age. Congress is still controlled by the Democrats, and President Palin does not even ask Congress to change the funding law back, and doesn't even talk about trying to do so, because she thinks it is hopeless and because psychologically and tactically everyone, including pro-life lobbying groups talking to a President Palin and telling her what they are concerned about, feels that it is now water under the bridge. Perhaps by that time we will have "moved on" to fighting against federal funding for outright embryo farms (creating embryos for research), and President Palin will get major pro-life points for being staunchly opposed to that and threatening to veto legislation authorizing it.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712012.post-89219108838231587602008-09-11T06:52:00.000-04:002008-09-11T06:52:00.000-04:00Assuming -- since it's how I'd have meant it -- th...Assuming -- since it's how I'd have meant it -- that your last remark is cynical, let us still hope that the Father of all, who loves these little ones more than the most fanatically pro-life of us possibly can, might make it be true. Who knows what He might use to turn someone's heart?If we give Him nothing *to* use, He will not necessarily do the work without us.<BR/><BR/>You have made a compelling case on several levels. May God grant that the right people see it and respond to Him through it.Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.com