Someone who intentionally mangles the name of Christ is surely in a good position to sort out “ethno-cultural slurs”. The above statement is an anti-Noachide slur.
On the subject matter of Protestant marriage I indeed meant to comment but somehow forgot. The Western Church considers all apparent (i.e. if by the behavior of the spouses they appear traditional) marriages, even by a justice of the peace, valid by presumption. If two Protestants had been married in their place of worship, and then for some reason seek a Catholic annulment, they won’t be able to use the argument that it was not a canonical Catholic sacramental marriage. The Church may annul their marriage or it may not; the fact that two Protestants marry in a Protestant church is, if anything, a statement of the seriousness of their intention at the time and may even make their annulment more difficult.
If, however, a Roman Catholic marries in violation of the canonical form, for example, in a Protestant Church or generally anywhere outside the Catholic Church, then the marriage is still presumed valid in the sense that he does not needs to confess fornication each time he shares a bed with his civil wife. However, should one spouse seek annulment it will be nearly instantaneous because of the lack of canonicity at its inception.
I am not objecting to "anti-Noachide slurs." I am objecting to the use of tired old elitist liberal cliches on a forum supposedly for conservative Americans. America's rural (especially Southern) Fundamentalist Protestants take enough guff from the mainstream media. There is no need for them to take it on Free Republic as well. Any reference to a "bead fumbler" would have been met with shrill cries of bigotry.
I myself disagree most profoundly with rural American Fundamentalist Protestants. But I respect them, and I don't engage in childish invective that belongs in a New Orleans "gay pride" parade rather than on a conservative web forum.
You were not the offender and I don't hold you responsible. It is disheartening, however, to see you acquiesce to such despicable language. Shame on you for that.