Russ has expressed some very negative things about homosexuals. I have actually been privately contacted by some who were so uncomfortable about the things he said that they expressed to me how appreciative they were of my own remarks to him on the subject. He also holds some reactionary political views that I find difficult to swallow. None of these things were meant generally as a comment about Christians, though you seem to take everything I say as words to that effect. If part of fundamentalism is to hate homosexuality then I have an issue with that, though I'd prefer not to go into it here because I'm sick of the sniping at the moment.


I am not going to say this again, so let it be said for the last time now. I am sorry you seem offended that your creationist beliefs have been called into question here by me, but that is the nature of the debate on a forum like this. You equate this with me hating you and all Christians in general, which is faulty logic and which I've said ten times over is not true, though as I also said it handily deflects the issue for you -- don't listen to the message, just shoot the messenger.

What's more, creation and evolution are non-issues on the mercury forum. There's no reason why they should be part of the discussions there. If I hated Christians so much, then why do you think I don't talk about religion there? Why do I do my own share of helping the people you think I so despise? Could it be because I don't despise them at all, and see these issues as only a part of the whole picture? I happen to believe that people can get on with each other in spite of their differences. Sorry that I don't conform more to the cartoon of the raving hate-filled infidel.