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Thanks HiJolly. :)

I think vouchers should be allowed for any school, even religious schools, as long as the school meets sensible standards. Some people scream that no tax dollars may be spent to advance religion, but I think that's a hollow argument. I just went to BYU's web page on financial aid, and it looks like students can get federal Pell grants to attend BYU. I don't find that a use of tax dollars to advance religion, because the student picks the school, not the government. If we can do this at the college level, I see no reason to forbid it for other levels of education. In any case, this story about The Hiding Place hit RealClearReligion this morning: http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/twocities/banning-hiding-place-future-society/ Backroads: Nothing stings like being called a liar, does it? A few years ago (when I lived in California) some conservative group bought ads for buses that simply quoted extremist Muslims' comments about Jews and the non-Muslim world. People freaked out and demanded that the ads be taken down immediately. (Directly quoting a person constitutes an attack against that person in California.) A lot of my friends stated that no atheist group would ever put up advertising that denigrates religion. Then I reminded them that I had seen many ads from American Atheists that quoted John Lennon's lyrics ("Imagine... no religion") and Richard Dawkins ("The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character is all of fiction..."). My anti-religious friends were shocked speechless and finally coped with it by calling me a liar to my face. How I wish I had had an iPhone then to take a photo of those ads... I think we have solid proof that no extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring human activity. If there were, they would have vaporized us long ago because of our foolishness.

Why ask for someone's opinion if you want to debate what their opinion is? Sure keeps me from wanting to give my opinion.

Gratitude..you can't be happy without it.

Hi Valdree, I'm a dude..but have experienced the same thing and was left with 4 kids. I feel for you and know what your going thru. They say that coping with a divorce is harder then dealing with a death and I believe it. You need to put your faith in Heavenly Father and know that things will get better. This experience is so hard, but can make you so much stronger and closer to your Heavenly Father. One thing I discovered was running and yoga...believe it or not. But running and yoga really helped my deal with the physical symptoms of the stress I was going thru. It was actually the first thing my psychiatrist recommended and I thought he was an idiot at the time. But after a week of running the aches and pains I was feeling in my body were gone and I could drop the SSRI drugs he was giving me completely. ..anyway strange advice perhaps. I have a feeling one day we will look back and be grateful for our challenges and we'll witness the hand of the Lord in helping us weather the storms. learn also to be grateful. Despite our challenges we can look around and find things to be grateful for. It didn't take long to look around and see people that had it much tougher then I did. In my same ward a women with 12 kids had her husband run off to China and marry someone over there leaving them destitute and they were British living in the States so they were basically made illegal as his job was what allowed them their residence here. anyway take it a day at a time, be grateful and seek support from the Lord. much love from a brother

The beginning of the end happened with Joseph Smith and the translation of the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the gospel.