This is one of those posts that is so easy, but becomes so hard to answer that honestly, I've prepared an answer no less than 5 times and before "Submit Reply" thought the better of myself and erased what I had written and decided to walk away from the keyboard and leave it for another day.

The answer is so obvious.

In this situation, I'm sorry that you think FlyerTalk is to blame or has a part in the various posts by some of its members. Let's step back for a second and looks this over from another perspective. First of all, this topic was not the creation of FlyerTalk, nor its members. Rather, it was a news item first reported by Fox News, with a Fair & Balanced approach to the news itself. If you look at the 66 comments posted to this story on Fox News, you'd find a similar number of insensitive and mindless attempts at jokes as you find in the thread you linked to which then appeared on FlyerTalk -- this from those who visit and read the Fox News Web site. If you visited USA Today and it's story on the same and read their 101 comments, or the 23 comments on HuffingtonPost or even the 28 comments on StandFirmInFaith.com, you'd find that FlyerTalk has no capital advantage from individuals whom I have described above. But I did notice in those and many other Web sites that reported on the story and featured comments by readers, than none of them had a public post that asked if homophobia was an official policy of that organization, though as I have posted, there are certainly similar and matching insensitive and mindless attempts at jokes.

Now, as to your comments and exhaustion of of RBP. In my research, I found that this thread, which did garner over 2,000 page views, only had two RBP for the comments and topic that was being discussed. I think that describes the efforts you mention. While I 100% appreciate where you are coming from and have absolutely no problem engaging in this discussion with you, the idea that a single person's RBP is enough to manage and change the direction of a thread is fairly challenging for us. Is FlyerTalk well-served when we close or edit every thread that has a single RBP? My guess is that even you'd agree that is likely not a logical step of progression. By doing so we then open up a new line of concern by our members -- is stifling freedom of speech the official policy of FT? This situation you pose for me to address is much bigger than just the topic of homophobia and while we may disagree as to the your personal views of this particular thread, we'd all be better for ourselves if when you find situations which are difficult to have a simple answer or remedy for, that you do the one thing we should all do, censor that particular member from your view of FlyerTalk. Only by Ignore User can these types of situations gain positive ground. When no one laughs at the mindless joke, when no one responds to the insensitivity of a post, the member whose audience shrivels away will only be forced to participate and be included in conversations where he actually has something to contribute.

I'm quite sorry that this has disturbed you so much, but I do believe that you might have carried it a bit far in not stepping back just a little. As I note, I looked at the origin of the topic, the general population of the Internet's response and reactions and contributions in preparing this reply. I do not believe it fair at all to pose a boxed in question about whether homophobia is an official policy here on FlyerTalk. But as it is with other members, you do have the right to exercise that comment and question.

Again, sorry for the delay in answering this, but I truly did walk away from the keyboard 5 times. Nothing personal, but I don't try to find someone or something to blame when life isn't always that perfect.