That Taliban remark is totally out of line and on par with a lot of stuff I've seen here. But in all fairness, there has been plenty of nastiness and evil perpetrated by individuals on both sides of this issue, with personal insults, people calling people Communists, talking about Pryor's 'gestapo' (how I hate that sort of hyperbole), people calling people redneck, slack-jawed, inbred, Puritanical religious zealots, and if someone doesn't take the exact same position as someone, then they're going straight to Hell, or else they're Talibanistas, and Judge Moore is either Moses or some minor prophet or he's P.T. Barnum or Elmer Gantry. These Moore threads have degenerated to a sorry state and both sides are responsible; it's like looking at a multi-car pileup, and here I am rubbernecking, like a dang fool.
It's a war between good and evil. I'm sure you must have heard of it.