[sandywh]

No! Its bad enough that some of us (me) end up highjacking a thread. (I don't want to, but sometimes you just gotta defend your side of things) Having a Politcal/Religious forum would serve no positive purpose. It would only draw out the worst in otherwise cool people. If we don't want some of these threads to turn bad, close the thread. Say that "This thread has reached beyonf its intended scope of purpose. Thread CLOSED - Moderator" To me, thats the best way, and then if we want to continue the bickering then we make a thread in Off-Topic and finish it out. Part of the problem is that we end up arguing because its there. If the thread were closed, and or moved its doubtful that we'd continue. The Username thread went waaaaaaaaay south because it spanned 3 days, Had someone shut it down after day one it would not have reached some of the levels that it did to some of the posters (me).

I firmly beleive in everything I post, but I do not like coming to an MMA forum and getting into a political/religous debate. There are others avenues for me to do that than here.