Some random thoughts.
I really am having a little trouble with this one.
To date Akenaton has used four threads on clerical child abuse as an opportunity for getting across his homophobic message.
He has, on open forum, presented gays, on this thread and others, as disease-spreading perverts who have no control over their actions. This, I have to assume, includes the members of this forum who have stated that they are gay and have shown far more tolerance of his rantings than I would have been able to in their position.
I can't speak for the US, but homosexuality has been partially legal in Britain since 1967, and was completely decriminalised in 1980, yet despite this he continues his (at least thirty year old) hate campaign on open forum, and once again uses the suffering of abused children as a platform. If, as has been suggested, he is trolling to wind us up, he has a disturbingly sick sense of humour, but if he is serious, he has real problems and should go and see someone to get mended.
If this had been about race, and it bears all the hallmarks of the type of racism I have witnessed most of my life, I have no doubt he would have, at the very least, have been warned of his behaviour, yet so far, Steamin' Willie and I have had our wrists slapped and instructed that we have to be nice to him.
Unlike some people, I'm not in the habit of running and wingeing to the site administrator, but I do believe that there comes a point when it is no longer acceptable for fanatics to use raped and abused children as a means of getting across a message that should, like the racism it so closely resembles, be nipped in the bud sharpish.
As I say, I'm having a little trouble with this one.
Jim Carroll