I do also understand that the emotional impact of your recent discovery may have contributed to the excesses on this thread. Please believe me…I’m not trying to silence you. I honestly missed you for the week or so that you weren’t posting.

Peace–will catch up to you on another thread!

I’m sorry – you are absolutely right. I will refrain from posting in areas where I have no interest.

I wasn’t trying to criticize the people in this discussion, I was more curious why Warren felt the need to have several posts on the matter – he answered that question, in part, above

J

Seriously now, you’ve posted 5 times in 2 days on a thread in which you admit you have virtually zero interest. Please consider that there is actually another alternative to coming to a topic and devaluing it’s worth…It’s really quite simple: just resist the compulsion to read and post on topics that don’t interest you. It would be more fair to those of us who do have an interest in the topic and would like to discuss constructively. I find it pretty outrageous that you have the gall to criticize any of us simply for what we choose to discuss. It would be one thing if this was the only topic on the table but there are 4 or 5 others out there. Please respect the fact that we may have some topical interests that don’t align with yours.

I get that – but I think the point has been made and the issue, hopefully, resolved. It was just one individual, right?

I never said this was a trivial topic, but I don’t think it deserves the amount of time we’ve spent on it given all the big things going on in and around the gay community.

I also haven’t been blogging much over at XGW lately, but I’ll check it out and see if they are as obsessed with this guy as Warren seems to be – and if they are, I’ll say something

Just for clarification…

The words quoted in the sentence re Steve Gallagher don’t sound like they could be his words. Are you quoting him or the comments of the news source?

BTW: I recall a number of topics or news stories that became part of our discussions here because someone brought them to Warren’s attention. A number of topics have been inspired by comments or topics posted on Ex-Gay Watch and Box Turtle Bulletin.

Jayhuck–

Your word choices seem to make it sound like Warren hopped on a bandwagon re the rantings of Wyant. It’s difficult to hop on a bandwagon when you’re the one driving. It’s also very difficult to control who hops on.

All said, I remain impressed by how this situation was handled. It may be a small start but it’s the first time that I’ve seen any real measure of ‘coming together’ on this site. Working together we had a positive impact.

I’ve heard reports here that others elsewhere added their own spin to this story but, as for Warren’s words, there was never any spin. The message of the original posting was “I found this site. It disturbs and puzzles me. What do you think? What should we do?”

– Steve Gallagher, president of pure life ministries, expresses disappointment that “fewer evangelical Christians now support job discrimination against same-sex-attracted people who are teachers by profession.”

– longtime foe of GLBT rights, Bob Allen, of Florida was charged with soliciting a gay prostitute (an undercover cop – ouch).

– the presbyterian minister who violated church doctrine in performing a ceremony for lesbian couples in 2004, and 2005.

Warren doesn’t try to ‘steer’ this site very much at all. Granted, he’ll bring SIT topics to the table but, otherwise, the topics are pretty much ‘current events’. (Even if that site had been around for some time, the accidental discovery of it made it a current event.) I envision Warren browsing and searching in his ‘free time’ and, when he comes across something that he feels we could all chew on, he presents it here as a topic. Many of the topics are revisited because something new develops. In this case, Warren wanted to report the follow-up letter from the Rainbow Outreach GLBT Center.

BTW: Warren indicates he got the text from Ex-Gay Watch, did you blog there today and tell them how trivial you thought the topic was?