Conservative Donnybrook

I am the party responsible for the deleted posts under the Tibbets thread. I apologize if I offended anyone. I was not attempting to silence any discussion, point of views or disagreements. Instead, I was attempting to keep the Tibbets post an obituary. As Karl had opened another thread I did not see the harm. Know that in the future I will not delete any comments without prior consensus of the Donny Brook authors.

Again, my apologies for not handling this situation better. Feel free to berate me in your comments to this thread. they are secure!

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In the words of the never-to-be-forgotten urban philosopher, Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along?” I am willing to admit that I crossed a threshold in naming a few of you Anti-American. For that, I apologize.

I will simply ask that our commenters, please confine your comments to the topic of the post. I will give a very recent example of what I consider a transgression. SM offered a post about a recent court case concerning abstinence. One of our commenters responded with a post about “the law.” Was he referring to United States law? No. He was referring to St. Augustine’s understanding of God’s law. Now, I am every bit as much of a believing and practicing Catholic as the next guy. But, when we discuss court cases on this website, it would seem that we are commenting on contemporary United States (or State) law and the culture which creates/tolerates/precipitates it. We are not talking about moral law that was “promulgated” 1600 or more years ago. Such a comment is completely unresponsive to the original post and drags the whole discussion off-topic. You may personally hold the view that contemporary law is divorced from our foundations as a Christian country; I may hold that view; and I’m pretty sure SM holds that view. But, that is not the topic of the post.

Please make sure if you are going to comment that the comment is pertinent to the original post.

Relatedly, let us all try to take each others posts and comments in the most charitable possible light. I make that pledge to anyone who posts here or comments here. I hope that all of the readers and contributors can find it in their hearts to start over and do the same.

On a slightly different note, I must note that something is working. Daily we are breaking records for visits. Already today at 6:37 Eastern Time, we have logged more visits than on any other single day in the history of Conservative Donnybrook. I attribute that first to excellent content. But, also to some extent to the readers and commenters that we have attracted to this site. I’d like to publicly congratulate all of the contributors to this site. And, I would also like to thank our readers and commenters.

Let us all try to start again.

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