marion: Well, given that this has become your thread, I guess I should just pack up and go home.

As far as the continued insults go: marion, I would cheerfully turn you into a stain on the wall and would do it without expending any undue effort. But, really, what’s the point?

You want to throw down with me? Have at it. It’s your MO: Ignore the larger debate, make it about you and how things “rub you the wrong way” and ignore everyone else’s feelings, opinions or beliefs.

Somehow that makes the rest of us intolerant, bigoted racists, right?

That would an interesting explanation from your end. Very enlightening, indeed.