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If Free Republic had been around when John F. Kennedy ran for office, I’m fairly certain most News threads would have sparked a theological sidebar debate.

My suggestion is to ask the correspondents in a theological sidebar on the News forum to please take it to the Religion Forum. If they don’t and it becomes a flame war or disruptive to the thread, then make an Abuse Report.

But be careful not to spam the abuse button – it can backfire.

The Administrative Moderators on duty will consider the report and the parties involved and will take whatever action they believe is appropriate which might involve doing nothing, or moving the thread to the Religion Forum or the Smoky Backroom or identifying trolls or troublemakers.

I agree with the policy. But after what we saw on the (pulled) keywords thread the other day, it seems to me that it's time to move the antimormon/pro-mormon (yep, alternated the order I listed the two factions) material off our main forum. Of course, I can sympathize with you because I'm not sure I'd want the increase in Mormon theology debates if I was the Religion Moderator. Can't be much fun to look forward to more of that.

But be careful not to spam the abuse button – it can backfire.

I haven't hit Abuse yet. And I am trying to persuade. I do think it's time for purely theological discussion on the religion of only one candidate (and who is pretty spotlessly secular in public policy) to be put in the Backroom. If Romney was some kind of super-Mormon, then I would say it does belong out front. It would be a shame to wait until it's become truly destructive to the forum. Certainly, those awful keyword attacks on Romney with words like ant_-chr_st and ch_ld_m_lest_r cannot have a very positive impact on our forum's reputation.

If Romney loses, let it be because he's too liberal or a bad candidate. Not this stuff.