Quote Originally Posted by Thistle Stop
Let us hope that no one comes armed, as Dreadlock-Ness Monster mentioned in his post!
I disagree with both you and Dreadlock-Ness Monster.

I'm more in agreement with Robert Heinlein's assessment that "An armed society is a polite society."

Since time immemorial, freemen and gentry have born arms. Bearing arms was the sign of a Free man rather than a bond servant. In days when people were expected to accept responsibility for their actions and for their crimes, there were fewer instances where men resorted to arms in the heat of an arguement. After all he KNEW that if he drew a weapon, his enemy and the friends of his enemy would do the same. Hence, an intelligent person would think before he used fighting words, or reached for his weapon.

Today, where it is not common for people to be armed, many people routinely use words and terms that in the 18th or 19th Century would have resulted in an invitation to join some one for pistols for two and breakfast for one.

Lambeth will be loud, and most entertaining for non-Anglicans, but don't expect bloodshed or fisticuffs.

BTW, if excecutions or assinations could cure or end homosexuality, it would have been stamped out thousands of years ago.