Tone and Steve,

I wasn't the first person to call anyone "outrageously ignorant".  I'll respect other people's views if they respect mine.  I don't believe I have "divebombed" anyone into submission.  On the question of thinking I'm always right, well, in this kind of issue there there is no definitive right and wrong, but there's not much point in standing up for something if you don't believe you're right.  That goes for me as much as my "opponents".

Unfortunately, debating this kind of emotive issue on an internet forum is virtually impossible to do sensibly.  I don't like these kinds of threads and TBH am tempted to ban threads of this nature in the future as all it does is create bad feeling between people who otherwise get on very well.  Neither side is going to change their mind so there's little point really.

Steve, if I offended you, I apologize.

Michael.