The silencing earlier wasn't because of his viewpoint. As you could see, VeryStableEnlightenedOne has been given leeway as we have allowed on both sides of the "aisle." He had his posting privileges taken way for a period of 5 days as he decided to, instead of complying with the request of a staff member (and in fact, one of the more liberal staff members we have), over the use of a word. He decided to post a smart aleck answer. That staff member, as he entitled to do by our site rules, took his privileges away. There are very few things I won't tolerate on this board, cussing, as this board is owned by a pastor of a church in Woodville, and disrespect of staff members. In fact, in my view, you get a warning for cussing, but disrespect of staff members is a zero tolerance policy and the veteran's of this forum can attest to my adherence of that.