In the present situation I would counsel cutting the mods some slack. Surely on even the best day they are handling many things and we only see the tip of the iceberg.
No doubt all of us who have been around here a long time have seen the chaos of liberals gloating of what they perceive to be a big win against us. I'm sure this NY-homosexuality law is no different and the fact that we are not being subjected to their rants on thread probably means the mods have been shutting them down at every turn.
The rants of the trolls give us the opportunity to share with our fellow freepers the arguments that we can use against them. It does us no good to pretend that these people don't exist or to ignore their rants. We need to sharpen our swords and the best way to do that is by clanging steel upon steel.
I posted the noob's unsolicited freep mail along with my response. I got several positive comments from long time freepers about my arguments. Then the mod deleted the whole post and later accused me of "actively promoting the homosexual agenda". That's insane.
I was presenting an argument to be used against the claim that we are all a bunch of backwoods bigots because we don't support gay marriage and embrace their perverted lifestyles.
I guess we can bury our heads in the sand and just pretend these trolls don't exist. I, for one, am ready willing and able to take them on one on one in a sword fight. That is what Free Republic should be about; taking the fight to the liberals and not just sitting here patting ourselves on the back because we are not like them.
AG, I take your advice to heart. You have been a long time inspiration to me. If you feel I am out of line, then I will drop it. Personally I want to re-post my original response to NY10101. But if it is going to cause dissension in the ranks, I suppose it is best if I drop it.
THX 4 the ping.