Daniel, using a legal disclaimer and "I am aloud to and I did." Is a pretty weak excuse.

Do you get up early and cut up the newspaper each morning so your family reads nothing you find objectionable?

There were valid points on both sides of the spirited debate, I am not taking sides on the argument, Who are you protecting us from? Our selves? What gives you the right to decide what I or anyone else reads?

If you received 5 e-mails and based your decision to censor on that, what about the other 1605 people who apparently didn't have a problem with it?

If you removed or edited every thread that went off topic there would only be a handful of postings left.

Simply locking a thread, asking for the topic to carried on elsewhere or not continued should end this type of issue is most cases (imho)