Interestingly, I remember about 2 years ago a thread was moved from here to the Smokey Back Room and I was the subject of some pretty vicious personal attacks by a well known FRoman Catholic who sad something to the effect of “Now I can really tell you what I thinks about you”.
Certainly not Christ-like behavior.
I agree with boatbums’s assessment. How will moving Religious discussions to an lightly moderated area protect FROman Catholic concerns?
IMO that's exactly what some of these Catholics are asking for, i.e. for Free Republic to move all religious discussion out from under any sort of moderation, because the current Religion Moderator will not allow Catholics to use destructive personal language in posts made about certain Protestants.
In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".
Same thing happened to me last year and NO ONE explained why it was moved even after repeated PMs to the Mods and a few others. Probably the same "well known FRoman Catholic" you recalled was who not only used the SBR designation to say some pretty nasty personal things towards me but pinged a whole host of other FRomans with the announcement that it was a free-for-all now that the thread was moved to the SBR! To add insult to injury, this person then mocked and ridiculed me for remarking about the invectives and changed forum designation.
If some want to be honest, they will have to admit that what they REALLY want is a "Catholic Caucus" atmosphere for ALL Religion Forum threads where nothing can be said that is critical towards their beliefs no matter what flavor of Christianity is represented. Kind of like the way it was when Roman Catholicism was the LAW of the land and dissenters could be burned at the stake as heretics?