Christian Banned From Town's Web

Ladera Ranch, a new community next door to my home, touted its community intranet as the newest thing in community design.

Now its the newest thing in PC thought repression.

The victim is Bo Kelleher, who refers to himself as a Bible-believing Christian. Here's his story, from today's LATimes:

The disagreement began last fall. Kelleher said he spotted a posting announcing that a Unitarian Universalist Church pastor who had just returned from a "marriage equality caravan" in support of same-sex marriage was going to speak at a local event.

Kelleher, who refers to himself as a "Bible-believing Christian," took issue with the posting and fired back, he said. "How does this garbage creep onto out [sic] message boards?!," he wrote. He said he suggested the posting about the pastor's visit be purged. Instead, Kelleher's message was yanked. ...

Also, after a resident protested Bush's anti-abortion stand in a plea for people not to vote GOP, Kelleher posted that anti-abortion protesters are "morally bereft." And in an act that probably offends some emerging PC body, he called child molesters "sub-human."

Kelleher finally launched his own site to counter Ladera's, and let people know it existed in a parting post to the LaderaLife intranet site, which include his list of grievances. At that point, he was banned from Ladera's site for life. Here's Ladera's explanation:

Anything and everything is discussed — as long as the discussion remains civil, said Paul Johnson, a vice president at Rancho Mission Viejo, Ladera's developer. Kelleher was far from civil, Johnson said.

Disclaimer: Johnson is a personal friend and a truly great guy.

I know I'd reading this in a family newspaper (that's happy to run all sorts of things on homosexuality, promiscuity and social mayhem), but the LAT gives no evidence to support Johnson's claim of uncivility.

Even if there were uncivility on the part of Kelleher, it was probably prompted by, or responded to, with similar incivility, yet only Kelleher was banned.

Unless evidence is presented to the contrary, this is a case of anti-Christian bias.