Reply #51: Indeed the slippery slope, from ridiculing groups of people for their beliefs

[struggle4progress]

and cheering people who disrupt their religious services, to more hateful acts (such as vandalizing churches) is easily slid down by quite a few people: desperate attention-seekers and isolated nutjobs are quite abundant enough across the whole political spectrum

I would harbor doubts about the mental health of anyone who emails death threats in response in internet stories. So if the kid in Florida received death threats, he should certainly report them to the appropriate authorities: the fact that he has inconsistently changed his story repeatedly on other matters, of course, does not mean that he is lying about this issue, though it might well color somewhat the reception his claims receive