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I will not give you my name but I've already stated the city I reside in, and the church I attend. I live 4 blocks from Sandy Bannon. We attend the same church. You have the right to not believe that...I still think that even if you had all the information on a table in front of you, you would refuse to believe it.

What's interesting is that we most likely would agree on a great number of issues...this particular issue is a thorn in our sides though. Free Republic is a wonderful opportunity to learn, agree or disagree, sometimes vehemently :o).

Mama, since we do not know who you are, we really don't know if you live in the city you claim. For all we know, you could live in Davenport, IA, Waycross, GA or the monkey cage at the Cleveland Zoo. Don't you understand, Mama? Without cold hard proof, your claim has no value. You're just another anonymous Internet poster claiming an unproven, tenuous connection to someone else who has some level of fame or notoriety. Folks like that are a dime a dozen on the Web.

Now, if I had your proof on a table in front of me, I could peruse it, examine it, check it out for veracity and THEN come to a conclusion regarding its truth or falsity. The difference between that and your position is that you aren't here, the mother of Michael Newdow's daughter isn't here, there's no table and you certainly haven't put any independently-verifiable information atop said nonexistent table. You haven't given us anything we can check out for ourselves to verify that you're telling the truth. Heck, for all we know, you could be some Dumocrat troll with an anti-fatherhood agenda, and if you're not, you're missing a great chance, because you're doing a good job parroting their feminazi line.

Honestly, Mama, I can't see myself having coffee with you. And that's because I generally don't have coffee with people who speak poorly of me behind my back. At any rate, just as there's no information sitting on a table, we're not sitting in a coffee shop. Thus your claims require verifiable proof. Without it, your claims carry no value.

That doesn't make you a bad person, and it's not your fault, but you do need to recognize that from the reader's POV, there's no difference between your claim and the claims of various Internet "experts" and "banking insiders" who claimed in 1999 that our bank balances and credit cards were going to evaporate at the stroke of midnight next New Year's Eve. They offered no proof, and turned out to be nothing but trolls looking for suckers.

I realize how frustrating this is, but you're simply going to have to accept it. Without definitive proof, there's absolutely no reason to believe you.