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I am not a
regular viewer of NCR, National Catholic Reporter, a site independent somewhat
of direct Catholic control, a so-called centrist POV but one that tows the
party line in most instances. I do hear of articles through blogs that I view.
There was
some fuss last week over an article over the death of priest in the past who
had tried to minister to the LGBT community over the decades.
It was apparently
comments on that article that caused NCR to shut down its comments app because
of all the gay hate comments masked in anonymous named trolls.
The priest,
a maverick in the AD of Philadelphia, Father Robert Nugent, was remembered in
this recent article.
Well worth a
read above.
But the real
point to me is how the hate and threats and force of the Right is what we all
have to fear especially when it shuts down civil discourse and true balanced
free speech.
In many
ways, the bully ways of the right, whether in shutting down traffic on the
George Washington Bridge for vendetta or trolling hate of fellow humanity, Gays, is
something we have all reason to be afraid of where all this anger and hate will
lead this country to.
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We ordered our Web
editor to suspend the commenting feature and to hide all previously posted
comments because of the malicious, abusive nature of the comments that have
bombarded our site in recent days.
Comments will be
suspended indefinitely. NCR editors will explore options that will
allow commenting to return in a way that respects our writers, the subjects of
our stories, and our readers. ,,,
Unfortunately,
we have reached a point where the good that an open discussion can do is being
outpaced by the damage it can cause when commenters do not respect civil
discourse.
Comments that have
appeared on the website in recent days have been vile and demeaning. We could
no longer support hosting a Web feature that allows such despicable comments to
appear, and that is why we ordered the suspension of that feature.
We
apologize to anyone who was offended by these appalling comments.
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