Warren Throckmorton

You are correct that this has been a difficult call for me. I really value the give and take but it is quite time consuming. Also, making judgment calls will mean I will be inconsistent at times I am sure. I already have comments moderation on but let almost everything through. I intend to be more stringent.

Comments like letters to the editor would actually be fine. However, I think the dynamism of just chatting is great too if it can be respectful and to the point.

Also, I think the time wasting element of it all is that I get many requests to back up various points that I have already spoken to in past posts or I do not have time to do. As I conceive a blog, it is a place of hopefully informed opinion but not a peer reviewed outlet. I shoot from the hip sometimes and have backed off of some things because commenters have provided alternative ways of thinking that are challenging. So I will see how this works.
 

Yeah, it's your blog Warren :)

Not sure we'd have a comment on his editorial policy therefore Jim. Oh, wait... just a minute... yes...

Also noticed Wayen Besen has recently made a similar announcement (although the comments here beg no comparison to the one's over there. Eye watering and ear curling, and more than a few apparently orginating from Atlanta for some odd reason /smirk).

I'll have to ask -- 'cause it'll play on my mind otherwise -- but you and Wayne haven't had a head-to-head and made a mutual decision about how best to prolong some commercial blogging scam have you!!!

PS: does name calling include "sinner"?
 

grantdale - I am laughing. Well, I was laughing. On so many levels, prolonging a commercial blog scam with Wayne just seems funny. Well, I don't think sinner would qualify as name calling. I would call myself that. Probably depends on the context and the adjective that preceded it. I won't go there or else I would have to reject my own post :)
 

Oh I don't mind if you proclaim YOURSELF to be a sinner.

Knock yourself out -- here, take this hammer.
 

Speaking of changing the tone, how about a very clear and very public statement on the EXODUS and NARTH homepages condemning violence against gays? How about an article from EXODUS or NARTH about what Christian's can do to decrease hatred of and violence towards gays?

You won't find anything like that if you search the EXODUS site. I'm not suggesting that they condone it, only that they are not very public in condemning it.
 

Well, I have been vocal about it. I have the only anti-bullying curriculum out there from a conservative mainstream perspective. About NARTH and Exodus, ask them. I would love to see conservative get fired up about the issue.
 

I have asked EXODUS. Nothing. I think they are afraid that such a statement might be misinterpreted as a validation of the gay lifestyle. They say they are against it, but they won't make it "front page".