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I, too, hope you'll reconsider leaving. I've enjoyed your posts and your energy.

As for controversial topics, I have to agree with K2: controversy about food and IBS are appropriate fights for Diet Board; controversy about social issues and religion are not. There are a goodly number of hot-button topics that do nothing but get people on one side - or both sides - angry and I think they're best avoided on the Diet Board.

It would be nice to think that we could discuss them on the Living Room Board but they make everybody so mad I don't think that's realistic either. Someone - or everyone - just gets their feelings hurt or their dander up and leaves in a huff. It's very sad and the Boards are diminished by each person who leaves.

(As a side note, I'm at a loss to explain this phenomenon. I can remember 40 years ago lying awake during adult parties listening to my mother, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents, and lots of their friends having fierce disagreements about everything under the sun. They were all still friends at the end of the evening. I think it's terrible that we seem to have lost that.)

There are discussion boards on the Internet that thrive on all kinds of controversial topics so perhaps those would be areas where you could bring up the issues that are so important to you. If you haven't already, you might check out The Anchoress. I disagree with lots of what she says but she's bright, interesting, often funny, and usually quite civil - all rare qualities in social/political bloggers of any stripe.

As for Heather, I do truly believe that if I started posting as you have about controversial topics but on the other side from you, she'd delete my posts, too. So please stick around and lend a helping hand.

Take care.

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