"Its still filth..."

This anonymous comment was left below:

I found your blog through Texas Connection. What has this filth got to do with Texas. I dont care if you live in Texas. Its still filth. You should repent and stop interfering with how Christians raise their kids.

I replied:

Anonymouse, you obviously did not read much of my blog or you would have seen that I do not live in Texas. You are entitiled to regard my ideas as filth. That's not my problem. It's yours.

I am perfectly willing to remove the link to my blog from the Texas Connection if that is what you are objecting to.

I am thinking of removing my link from Texas Connection anyway not only because of this comment but because I have now had time to read most of the blogs in the Connection and I can see that quite a few of the bloggers would object to some of the contents on my blog.

What has happened this week (with the email from the young man) but especially the email from the suicidal girl has made me realize that I do have a responsibilty and can't start worrying about ruining my reputation or winning popularity contests or grabbing new readers.

I did not foresee that I would get emails from troubled kids but of course they are all over the Net. So from now on, I will be taking this a lot more seriously and, if I need to talk about it, I will regardless of whether some people will like it or not.

I can still share reciprocal links with other bloggers who are not offended by some of my subject matter.

PS Texas Fred just commented:

And PatC, you can't remove your link from the Texas Connection, I am the only one that can, and this son of a bitch *anonymous can rot in hell if he thinks I am gonna do that just to please him...

By the power vested in me, as a true and natural resident of the Great State of Texas, I do hereby bestow upon PatC the title, *Honorary Texan*...

Now *anonymous*, kiss MY Texas ass...

Thank you for making me an Honorary Texan. I am deeply honored.

PPS I am moving this comment from Gayle up here because it means a lot to me and I don't want anyone else to miss it:

I didn't know what you were referring to when I first came in here, so I went back and read your Dinosaur post, and many of your other posts as well.

First off I must let you know that I am a member of The Texas Connection. The anonymous blogger who left that comment is a coward. Otherwise why would he/she sign him/herself as "anonymous?" People who have the courage of their convictions also have the courage to sign their names!

Secondly I see nothing wrong (and I'm also what would be called a conservative and a Christian, but not necessarily a conservative Christian, explanation later) with anything you have written here. I would hate for you to leave The Texas Connection because of something like this. I'm sorry you are experiencing this sort of discrimination.

No, I don't think gays should have the right to be married. No, I don't approve of the "gay" lifestyle either nor do I approve of gays pushing their agenda off on children in our schools or of Hollywood attempting to normalize it! I believe that many youngsters are confused because of this. Neither do I hate gays or fear them. I simply don't want society to "normalize" their behavior. It is the fringe loony gay groups and parades with gays running around nearly naked and being disrespectful to everything and everyone that disgusts me and most conservatives.

I am an Episcopalian. We do not take everything in the Bible at face value. We study theology and we try to understand what is parable and what is fact. Even the greatest scholars do not know!

By saying I am not a conservative Christian, the above is what I mean. I'm not the type of Christian who judges everyone as evil who does not believe the way I do. I am a rational human being who believes in God, pretty much the same way you do.

As you will find if you visit my blogs, either of them, it is the MSM I am fed up with, and the liberals who are attempting to socialize this country to the point where we have no values whatsoever.

I know this is long. I just took the time to write this much to let you know that not all conservatives are that radical, and I feel you are always going to pick up some very disparaging remarks no matter what you write about.

A suggestion: turn off "Anonymous" comments. They are only written by people without any guts. I only allow people who have taken the time to sign into a blog (they don't even have to write one, just sign up for one) to comment on my blogs.

Okay... I've had my say. I hope you reconsider leaving the Forum. I apologize if any of my conservative friends have upset you, but I don't think any of them would have done so. You write extremely well and should be commended as a true Christian who is doing the best you know how, which is all any of us can do.

Blessings!

Thank you, Gayle. Once again you made me realize how glad I am to have met you. Thanks for taking the time to write such a long comment. I hope you know that I appreciate it a lot and value your opinion highly.

The post that really got all this controversy started was one that I made last year and which I reposted a few months ago:
Why I don not agree with "gay rights." You will see that I agree with pretty much everything that you have said above.

I really don't mind anonymous comments which is why I allow them. I have even had some nice anonymous comments posted by folks who are too shy to use their names. I also really don't mind that some people don't apporve of me. I stopped worrying about what others thought of me a long time ago in South Africa when I was called a nigger-loving fag because I opposed apartheid. people are entitled to think whatever they want. If they hate me, that's their problem not mine.

And yes, your fight is my fight. I could care less about socalled "gay rights" or "black rights" or "women's rights." As I've said before that's like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. What I care about is America first and sticking to the vision that the Founding Fathers had. Like you, I detest the MSM, the socialists and the other assorted liars and fakes who think they control our society.