re: #5 thedopefishlives

Yes, but then again, that is the point.

Wheaton can’t allow for differences of opinion in anything substantive. The highly regimented thinking is required, essential, to their existence.

This war is really a religious war with many sides. The GOP nomination process being an example.

What Wheaton is doing is not new. What has happened though is that the society in which Wheaton now finds itself is more diverse. So now the issue for Wheaton is that keeping to its old hard line of doctrines becomes even more obvious as an outlier in our society.

And they know this.

And thus the fundamentalists are starting to feel like they no longer have their hegemony over our society.

And they resent that.

So now everything is a last stand, a line drawn in the sand.