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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mr cheesy: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Alan Cresswell: I would be deeply uncomfortable if we started to have any topic that couldn't be discussed on the Ship. One of the Unrestful things we have always done is to say that even subjects other Christian sites might rule off limits can be discussed here. [/QUOTE]I have been thinking about this and I think you are wrong. There clearly are legal topics that some Christians believe and/or discuss which we would not tolerate here. The truth is, I think, that we are a microcosm of people who generally speaking tolerate a range of beliefs within certain unwritten boundaries. We don't usually push those boundaries and I suspect that there would be considerable upset if anyone tried to. Up to now, we have determined that discussions about the nature of homosexuals is a free hit for discussion. That we don't mind how often someone starts a thread or makes a post that clearly dehumanises and undermines a homosexual person (providing it is in the right place) - in a way that doesn't happen to others. If we had any regular Muslims posting, I don't think we would expect them to constantly be defending themselves on multiple threads that made all kinds of claims about them, their practices and so on. Such a person would contribute in the normal way and would be listened to rather than attacked. Even a person advocating polygamy of free sex would get an easier ride than the homosexual. I say it is time for this to stop. We don't have to tolerate it. We don't have to pretend that we are a bastion of free speech or that we equally attack all views when the evidence of decades is in the archives. I say that the poster who sometimes says something intelligent about the issues - but which is a bit offthewall - is fair. But the poster who spends all their time writing things about homosexual brethren which would be unacceptable about anyone else should be shown the door. I don't think there is a fine line, it is a thick and obvious line. Tl;dr - several decades of these diacussions are enough. If someone wants to continue only posting stuff which undermines our homosexual brethren, they should be told to do it elsewhere. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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