[llandres]

“Instead of excusing wimps, why don’t you focus on the topic at hand which is the fact that Phelps’ roots were never in anything having to do with God or Christiainty at all, but in the Democrat party with an intent to loudly mis-represent conservative opposition with headline-grabbing absurdities.”

I was merely pointing out a fact as to why we get mischaracterized. I don’t approve of the gay lifestyle or gay marriage in the least, and was elated to get the info about Phelps and his nut jobs being Democrat. I made a point of relaying this to many libs I know and plan to keep doing so.

[Agamemnon]

I was merely pointing out a fact as to why we get mischaracterized.

You're too busy tip-toeing around all the propaganda to be any kind of an effective opposition to it.

If anything Fred Phelps has done or said about gays as a way to caricature what should be the complete and total aggressive denunciation and opposition to that lifestyle, has cowed you into silence, Phelps wins and you lose.

All the "merely pointing out" garbage "merely" gins-up a misplaced second guessing and sows dissembling seeds of doubt among the ranks of the legitimate conservative opposition to that societally corrosive behavior. You want us all to wring our hands in a way that leads to a perpetual tailspin of ineffectiveness -- and that is exactly what Phelps wants.

Your methods let them define the terms on which the conservative opposition can do battle with them.

By contrast I prefer define the battlefield, because I intend to win, thank you.