(July 15, 2021 at 9:52 am)tackattack Wrote:(July 14, 2021 at 12:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: No, they won’t. But members of the forum who are survivors of sexual assault shouldn’t have to be subjected to his harmful rhetoric.
That’s a slippery slope when one of the main reasons I see in a lot of intros on this forum is trauma from religious guilt and fear. Replace sexual assault with religion and that would make a case for having no believers on the forums.
This is my personal opinion, nothing official.
I've been on staff for the better part of a decade. I can tell you the relative number of complaints regarding creeper behavior vs some random theist making someone uncomfortable because of past trauma are orders of magnitide apart. Our rules and how we apply them is intended to filter on behavior, not belief. You were on staff before I started so I can't say how it worked back then.
As far as I'm aware, the staff are all in favor of inclusivity, and further I think that if a staff member weren't so, they ought not be on staff.
If we ever got to the point where we excluded theists on that or any other basis, this would be not a place worth coming to.
MHO, offered for what it's worth.
