... not commenting any way on HD's position or the worthiness of the
charity in question, just identifying that it appears that intolerance
and what would otherwise be pilloried as hate speech is OK depending
upon the target

Just my $0.02 - and I never realized there were so many
ANTI-Christians
in the wreck. Just because someone has a strong Christian faith and is
tired of Christianity being singled out to be discriminated against,
as
in it's OK to celebrate Islamic and Jewish heritige in public schools,
but not Christian heritige or values, that doesn't make that person a
religous nut, it makes them a person with strong beliefs.

As this is the first I've said in this thread, it's obvious that you
can't
mean me, HOWEVER, of the comments that I've seen so far(admittedly, I
haven't read them all yet, but I'm working on it) are not "many
ANTI-Christians" comments...a few that defend HD's right to set policy,
yes.
Anti christian, sorry, I don't see it.

I stand by what I said...I believe that most of what you quoted to backup
the "anti-christian" sentiments were at least in part, a desire to tell the
OP to go away and the easiest way to do that with someone coming off as
rabidly as he did, is to hit with a big stick where it'll hurt the most. I'm
not saying that it's right or correct...just that that's how I see it. I
tend to be rather pragmatic and live with life and it's curveballs the way
they come.

Are all the comments meant as that? Don't be silly, I'm sure that some are.
I just don't believe that there is a wreck-wide anti-christian sentiment. As
for the comments about teaching the tenets of islam and judaism but not
christianity...I think it's all BS...none should be taught, other than as it
relates to history. But if, as it is in the district that I live in and pay
my taxes to, they are trying to teach tolerance to the other religions...the
only thing I can say in defense of the schools is that it's rare to need to
teach someone to be tolerant of the religion that they belong to. And I am
lumping all christian groups together under that umbrella.

If you don't see anti-Christian in the following, just substitute
"jew" or "black" for "Jesus Christ" or "Christian" and ask yourself how
quickly the long knives of "racism" and "bigotry" would come out.

If I thought that the comments where meant as they were typed, then I'd say
you have a point. HOWEVER, the biggest drawback to using newsgroups is that
it can sometimes be hard to get sarcasm across...correction, easy to type,
but not everyone is going to read it as such, especially when it's directed
at them.

As I said, I stand by what I said.

Mike