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.
Best I can tell the desire was to not give free advertising or a gloating soapbox to the liberal/anti-Christ trolls.
But I do not see where there would be any problem at all in posting a "How to respond to the homosexual claim that ..."