[cantabile]

I agree completely, but I suspect your post will fall on deaf ears. It's also why no public conservative figures will touch this website with a ten foot pole anymore.

I agree with ken5050 as well, but as you can see even this thread has turned into a Mormon-bash. Being Catholic, I disagree with the Mormon faith, but my opposition to Romney doesn't stem from his theology. He was my governor, and imposed his own form of Obamacare upon us. Surely, there's plenty of objective evidence of his unsuitability for the Presidency to be found in his record in Massachusetts alone. No need to alienate all LDS in the process.

FR has squandered its potential as an organization with real political clout (remember when Bob Barr was a member? Lucianne Goldberg? Matt Drudge?) because bigots of various stripes have been permitted to run wild, swamping principled political (and religious) discussion. It's self-reinforcing, as those who would like to keep things civil and well-reasoned leave for greener pastures, which causes the net concentration of screwballs to increase.

The Religion Forum has been a never-ending Catholic-bash for over a decade. Obviously, attacks on one's most intimate relationship, that of the individual with God as he understands Him, are the mostly likely to cause bruised feelings, emotional rather than intellectual responses, and flame wars. The potential of the Religion Forum was to bring together people of a common conservative political outlook, but from different faith traditions, into a solidarity of mutual cooperation and understanding. Re-fighting the Thirty Years War is a very effective means of squandering that opportunity as well.

I don't see things improving unless JR directs the mods to put a stop to this pointless bickering, and restore some sanity to this place. Until that happens, FR will be useful primarily as a news aggregator rather than a discussion forum or means of political influence or of organizing activism.

[ken5050]

Thanks...you said what I was trying to say, far better than I did..but alas, it will also fall mostly on deaf ears. The way this thread has devolved makes my point...but nobody will note it..

[ken5050]

Forgot to add....remember when Barbara Olsen would post here, and Tony Snow..those were the days..even then it was also necessary, when Snow's appointment was announced, that IMMEDIATELY every one of his posts, even his logon, was scrubbed from the Website..

You look at a site like RedStae, where Senators, and presidential candidates, post their comments...could that ever happen here?..nah...

[Elsie]

I agree with ken5050 as well, but as you can see even this thread has turned into a Mormon-bash.

Any place that a MORMON has the nerve to start spouting any of their HERESY will turn in to a BASH.

Bold
ANTIs
Spotlighting
Heresy

[Elsie]

We’re tired of it and WILL not take it any more!

[Elsie]

No need to alienate all LDS in the process.

Oh they LOVE it!

It gives them reason to live.

If they ain't bein' 'victimized'; they ain't HAPPY!

In their eyes; it PROVES they are right.