The thread was going nowhere, with the exception of the musical interlude, it had become just people arguing about who said what.

That IS boring.
No, if this section of the forum is to survive as a platform to debate all current and controversial issues, action will have to be taken to clean the place up.
If that means no controversial subjects, so be it, I will abide by the mods decision, but when I or any other member who wants to discuss grown up subjects is gone, the "pack", having tasted blood, will turn on others....."faith" is next in the firing line. In the UK there is pressure building up to stop the nation being classified as a "Christian country", the same faces who latch on to all the "rights" issues are right there.
The overthrow of Christianity is their long term aim....the bastion of conservatism in their eyes. Before long, society, now badly damaged, will be non existent.