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1.10.08 @ 12:01AM

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I have to agree with Mr. Randall Allison about driving drunk and killing someone should be Murder One. I have a friend whose son was killed at 4PM by a drunk driver that was driving without a license and had 3 other drunk driving convictions. I have often said driving drunk is the same as using a gun, it is not the car or gun that kills, but the nut using them.
-- Elaine Kyle

VERY MORMON OF YOU
Re: Mike Showalter's letter (under "Jesus Doesn't Love You") in Reader Mail's Fan Mail:

I would like to thank Mr. Showalter for accepting that I believe in Christ even though he feels that I don't really get it or have been misled. That was exactly why I wrote in to avow my faith in Christ. You did not make me sad, and I am gratefull.

It is great to see Christian behavior from someone who espouses Christ. Too often we fall short, no matter what our denomination, myself included.

It is kind of fun having one of your own arguments inverted and used against you. Mormons love to ask the question "What happens to everybody who lived before Christ, or who never got the chance to hear about Christ?" You see we believe that God loves all of us and has made sure that everybody gets the opportunity to be set free by Christ. It is up to each of us to accept or reject Him.

But I am not writing in to convert people, or to argue my beliefs are right and yours are wrong. I just want people to know that we do believe in Christ. I accept that Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, etc., etc., etc. have belief and faith in Christ. Thank you for demonstrating that belief.
-- James Bailey

FAITH, HOPE, AND REAGAN
Re: Deborah Durkee's letter (under "Partying with Reagan") in Reader Mail's Fan Mail:

In her letter responding to Jeffrey Lord's "Why I am a Reaganite," Deborah Durkee wonders about what happened to Reagan Conservatism in Iowa and New Hampshire.

The answer is simple. In both the Iowa Circuses and the N.H. Media Event, Republicans had little say in who "won" on the Republican side because so-called "independents" were allowed to vote.

How many so-called "independents" might be classified as Reagan Conservatives? Precious few, I would imagine, else they'd be Republicans.

Hope, Ms. Durkee, will sustain you until February 6th, and allow you to prevail in November.

I hope.
-- A. C. Santore

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