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@pajamas
deference in the sense of giving them a platform in the first place? I'm with you. Trust me, I've sat through hundreds of sermons given by tapped old buzzards (or "priests") which, while not necessarily containing any hate-mongering bile, did little to justify their free air time and their position as a figure of influence in other people's lives.
I know it's in the telegraph, but - the deference starts and stops with the reader / listener. You don't sound deferential, I'm not, and I get the impression those who are deferential just because it's a man of the cloth speaking are a dwindling minority in the older generation.
And you can be devoutly religious and still thunderously angry at one of these men for the cobblers they spout. Unthinking deference is a fairly old position.
It ain't as bad as you're worrying it is, tynan...