Not bored at all, Jim; but fascinated, & full of genuine sympathy for these experiences & empathetic of your position as a result. But you do me a grave injustice by accusing me of equating the, as it were, lowest manifestations of these particular disabilities, the difficulty of obtaining contraceptives, with the most severe, as you cite them; which I have certainly never done. I was merely using them as instances of the bottom of the scale of persecution as I perceive it. I do not regard them as any way equivalent, but as appearing on quite different persecutory levels on the scale. Which brings us back to ▢-1, Jim ~~ your peculiarly obtuse refusal to realise or accept that there are varying degrees of seriousness of persecution. The ones you cite from RC Ireland are indeed high on the scale; but still scarecely to be equated in severity with judicially recognised cap-pun by beheading for apostasy, surely: even on the Carrollean scale!

Do please get this point into your head, and stop being so truculently and contentiously offensive & unpleasant. It simply puts people off [see above], and is entirely counter-productive in attempting to enforce the significance of your position & arguments. I know these are things on which you hold deep & sincere opinions; but for your own sake try to control yourself and keep your temper when urging them!

~M~