Why is that message falling on deaf ears here?

I don't think a word anyone has said here has fallen on deaf ears, and it's inaccurate to assume that declining to respond can be characterized in any particular fashion. I think that a lot of people just feel the way I do-- that continued discussion on such a sensitive topic needs for us to be able to identify who has said what, before responding. There have been polite and repeated requests to take some name for the purpose of this thread, and none of the GUESTS (however many there are) has responded to THAT.

And it's too bad, because some excellent posts have been made, and I would have liked to pursue some of them, but it's just too much work to sort it all out without some kind of nametag. I'm as busy as anyone else, if not more so this particular week, and it's not how I choose to allocate my time or energy.

Simply stated, the topic is complicated enough without mixing in the question of whether the person who said "Statement A" on such and such date is the same person who said "Statement B" on another date.

~Susan