Ian, if you go back to the threads concerning homosexual "marriage", adoption, etc, you will find that the posts numbered into many thousands. The debates were interesting...and for the most part civil.

When the nasty personal stuff started to appear, most of the real liberals disengaged or left the forum.
Now it is almost impossible to have an objective discussion on any controversial subject, without the "attack dogs showing their fangs.

Verifiable facts used to be the order of the day, now it is politically correct myth which rules this forum.

The "myth bearers" have the temerity to mock good Christian people for their beliefs what a sick joke!