Hey, can we all take a deep breath? Not that I'm not flattered to have a defender, but Shay, Stratfordbabe and I tangle on a regular basis; the result of rather radically different worldviews. I think we both get ahold of the wrong end of the stick more often when we're reading each other's writing as opposed to talking, but we generally talk around it and figure things out. (The whole New Testament/Old Testament Christian thing is a new and interesting angle; I want to ponder on that before I respond.)

But on the whole, to quote the Bard, we "strive mightily but eat and drink as friends."

You are very right about tolerance vs intolerance, but now I'm going to start another hare because I love a good discussion. Is it possible to follow any written document, be it Constitution or Bible blindly? Isn't anything, even "it literally means this" an interpretation? Mel interprets "the rending of the veil of the temple" as an earthquake; Massachusets interprets the Constitution as *already* supporting gay marriage. Both the filmmaker and the judges can point to words and say "They literally mean..." but there are those who argue that it's a wrong interpretation.