Yeah, I can't say I've ever thought of Ake and GfS as trolls. I really think they believe what they're saying - warped though their thinking may be....
I don't like the idea of people calling other people trolls in the first place. It tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Recently, I've been corresponding with a guy who was a friend of mine when we were students in a Catholic seminary. At the time we were in school, I think people would have called him a "liberal intellectual." He left the seminary and was in a homosexual relationship for a number of years. More recently, he became a conservative and then married a woman, and he says he's been happily married for a number of years. To me, his political and religious views are distressingly conservative (and he thinks mine are distressingly liberal), and he is staunchly anti-homosexual. He's the first "reformed homosexual" I've known; and frankly, I don't know what to think. He certainly seems sincere.
-Joe-