He wanted me to share his response:
That's my boy, Captain of the debate team, Class of 2025.
Posted on 03/11/2009 3:47:01 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The pair, parents to 2-month-old son Tripp, broke up 'a few weeks ago'
Bristol Palin and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up, two sources tell PEOPLE.
The split happened "a few weeks ago," according to a source close to the couple, but it's unclear what precipitated it. "It was a mutual thing," adds the source.
"It kind of just happened," says the source, referring to the split. "I thought they would stick it out. But I think they can work together to raise Tripp."
Despite the breakup, Levi still sees the couple's son. Levi's dad, Keith Johnston, told PEOPLE recently that his son is a devoted and "proud father."
Bristol, meanwhile, is attending Wasilla High, taking a class to supplement course work she is completing at home. She also is considering enrolling in college next fall and studying nursing.
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Some concepts are out of the reach of even the smartest individuals.
You are the best of us all.
I have to pick up my “interesting anecdote” from day care.
Your child is NOT his infancy. He is an unfolding creation of God who wil derive the most significant understanding of the worth and importance of fatherhood from your actions throughout his life.
I don’t understand how ANY committed father can think that a biological mother’s love merely by virtue of its origin from the biological mother, replaces the need for a committed fathers or that society at large has no right to an opinion on the question.
Were they your biological parents?
No. It's how you deal with adverse situations.
Amen.
Actually that was almost all he was. Thanks be to a MERCIFUL God it wasn't.
I’m struggling to understand how that information bears on this or any other case.
He wanted me to share his response:
That's my boy, Captain of the debate team, Class of 2025.
It bears dramatically, not on the case per se, but the cause and nature of your Draconian response and immutable stance.
It has a great deal of bearing on your entire attitude. So, I'll ask again - were the married couple that raised you your biological parents?
You mean you actually got a vote in this?
You know full well that the interesting point of the anecdote—the purported reason it has any relevance to the discussion at hand—is that you believe it supported your thesis of early neonatal recognition.
But if your determined to take offence, go right ahead.
My attitude is of interest only to my biographers.
What is at issue are the facts of the case and our moral opinion of them.
We all get a vote on issues in public debate.
Not that the principles listen to us, but we do have a right to have and express an opinion.
Oops.
“Not that the principals listen to us...”
This bond for the mother (and probably father) comes when you know there is a baby.
Our last wasn’t “planned”. I knew we were taking a chance (ran out of those little white pills), I even uttered the words, “you know if I end up pregnant, we will be getting an abortion”. Being a man, my husband, said, yeah, sure, fine.
So we took the little test and my first words were “when should we tell the boys?”. There was no question.
I have to disagree with our friend, the baby knows too. Our first son actually lifted his head and tried to focus on me the first time I held him. From what I’ve learned, they hear your voice in the womb so he recognized the voice. I remember looking at my husband with my mouth wide open. I can’t believe he’s trying to look at me and lift his head! They know and no, I don’t have any scientific proof but I was there.
Yes, but our opinions are shaped by events in our lives. Your repeated refusal to answer the simple question of whether you were raised by your biological parents or not leaves me with a very certain opinion about you and why you "feel" the way you do.
Now that is a cute kid!!!
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