I, for one, hope you won't do that, Jim. I think it is more likely that one can carry on an intelligent and undisrupted discussion on these issues if there is a separate forum. Flame wars, particularly religious flame wars, do no credit to their participants, nor to FR. Those who feel that threads in the Religion Forum are not getting enough exposure can always post links in the News forum to threads in the Religion forum. Would it be possible to implement a "Religion" sidebar, similar to the "News/Activism" sidebar, which those who are interested can turn on?
I hope that my fellow Catholics would realize that the moderators may not be aware of our concerns and priorities, and must make decisions based upon their own personal experience. They may not have religious convictions at all, and may have a different opinion of what constitutes "news", what constitutes "doctrine", what constitutes legitimate differences of opinion, and what constitutes bashing. I very much appreciate Mr. Robinson's statement that he opposes the gratuitous denegration of the Catholic Church, and thank him for giving us a place where we can discuss our faith, and the crisis we are presently facing.