Thank you, Jim.
I have been concerned for some time about the outright anti-Christian bigotry being voiced by some on Free Republic. It's your site and your rules, so except for the worst of the stuff I've mostly kept quiet. I was aware of the existence of anti-Freeper sites, but since I have limited time, I don't monitor those sites and did not realize this was getting organized by people with a stated agenda.
It is really good to see you say this (and similar things on other threads) putting teeth in the officially stated purpose of Free Republic. Mission statements are good things, but unless enforced, they don't keep organizations from drifting into other paths.
Lots of conservative organizations which were once faith-friendly have, over the years, been co-opted by libertarians or other people who, to their credit, do share some parts of the conservative agenda. Unfortunately, they combine some good conservative ideas with anti-religious views. We have a major problem among young conservatives today who have bought into the appeal of immorality and wickedness and justify it with conservative rhetoric of "get the government out of my bedroom and my personal life."
You deserve compliments for not letting that agenda run things here.
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It's amazing to see that people have left a site like Free Republic with tens of thousands of regular readers for a site with stat reports like these:
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Jim, based on lousy stats like those, it would seem like people who don't agree with you on a few things would learn to shut their mouths, live with the fact that nobody agrees with everybody on everything, and just accept that Free Republic gets read when most other conservative sites can't even come close to competing.
Methinks some people who are blaming you for supposedly demanding 100 percent agreement are actually guilty of the same thing themselves — if they're not in the driver's seat, they'd rather ditch the fast Ferrari and exchange it for a bicycle.
Libertarians are among the "wolves in sheep's clothing" that our Lord warned us about.
Libertarians don't like taxes, but that doesn't make them conservatives. They say that they want limited government, but they are typically anarchists who want no government.
When it comes to things like abortion and homosexuality, they start talking about how government can't dictate morals, but they fail to realize that ALL LAWS are about morality. Governments exist to protect the rights of man, libertarians tend to resent this.