“Timothy,

I resent you calling Harry a kook. No I was not a Radical Faerie. Yes I was a member of the Gay Liberation Front in Berkeley in 1970. You probably consider that a kook group also.

Mark Barnes
San Francisco”

There is no “tactic” here, Timothy, only tracking facts which my have been distorted.

The echo chamber is here.

The person trying to “shut down” conversations is the person that applies a comments policy uni directionally.

The person engaging in the culture war is the one who wishes to use such simplistic phrases as “anti-gay.”

Oh, I see the tactic. Claim “distortions” in order to re-engage in a debate about old dead topics. Sorry, I’m not going to play your game here.

I’ve addressed your accusations above and will not reopen that nonsense. You will not be successful in hijacking the conversation.

This site does not welcome your Culture War.

David Blakeslee and I have a long history. Experience suggests that if he is given much freedom he will use it to start fights, debate minutia, disrupt conversations, and engage in Culture War. I do not take his comments lightly, I know where they lead.

I suspect his purpose here is to create an environment that is hostile and combatant and shut down conversation. I’ve seen that occur at another site and I am determined that it will not happen at BTB.

you are persisting in distorting Jennings story about Brewster…he has never said it was allegorical.

You are attempting to portray Hay as a civil rights leader who deteriorated in his later years to a “kook.” Such a deterioration is not supported by the facts, he always had some unusual beliefs. Asserting a deterioration when there is a pattern of unusual beliefs throughout the lifespan is a distortion.

You have distorted the work by Warren with the Montgomery County Public Schools.

You assumed I knew of Jennings long before I knew of Hay, and impugned my motives based upon this wrong assumption.

There is more above…

Distortions may not be intentional lies; Sometimes we distort to protect a cherished belief or to allay anxiety…

I’m heading out and will address your accusations of distortion later.

Your perceptions of both people and events is inaccurate…perhaps purposely distorted.

Insinuate that I’m a liar here at this site one more time and you will be blocked permanently.

I think you’ll find the distortion of Hay as a kook and “not an icon,” there also.

Your perceptions of both people and events is inaccurate…perhaps purposely distorted.

To repeat…you have gotten so many things wrong in this post have you considered corrections?

That is a serious accusation. I know that you have become accustomed to slinging personal slurs against me at other sites, but that will not be allowed at BTB.