+1
I respectfully disagree on the "mob" comment. This guy got pretty defensive in a fairly short period of time, I thought. When you start typing in all caps, constantly accusing people of not reading what you wrote (even when they did), and saying things like "GOT IT?," you're not exactly inviting a polite rebuttal, though I feel I offered several of those anyway.
It's a touchy subject, to be sure. And I think people should approach it as such. Even if this is all one big misunderstanding, it seems a rather understandable misunderstanding. All reasonable people should know to tread lightly around this topic, and all people (reasonable or not) should understand that when you phrase a reply in a more confrontational way, you should be prepared for someone on the other end to up the ante in return.
I don't feel anyone has been victimized or treated unfairly here, and the relatively slow way in which this discussion has evolved (over something like a couple of weeks, isn't it?) is a good example of that. Nobody was pounced on or blindsided, I don't think.