I said it before, and I will say it again. If one is going to discuss controversial subjects, there will be plenty of things for everyone to dislike. We are not going to delete messages or close the thread because something is posted that you don't want to hear. That is the nature of discussion. You are not going to be successful by making the dubious argument that by BoJ saying that homosexuality is disgusting (in his/her opinion) that he is personally attacking someone you care about. That is a stretch and to demand deletion shows a lack of intellectual depth.

I showed this thread to one of my oldest, best friends. He is a gay man who has lived monogamously with his partner for almost 30 years. I asked both of them, if they were me in the role of Forum Moderator, would they close the thread or delete the posts. They were both adamant that I not do that. My buddy said that if you don't let these folks expose themselves for the bigots that they are, and if you don't let folks see the fallacies in their arguments, then you are acting out of fear that good people of honorable intent won't make the right decision. Both of these men thought that those that would ban them were far more dangerous than the persons expressing the anti homosexual bias.

For what it is worth,

Mick