Steve Evans: "they sound stupid and hateful"

You mean like 95% of the content at the blog beast you created?

And really, Steve: "It takes particular insight to be able to voice disagreement intelligently with the Church without sounding like a typical disgruntled DAMU denizen — most of those able to do so are already permas here."

Nope.  BCC is basically the DAMU-lite, and insight is rare to non-existent among any of your permas.  If you had any real insight, you'd realize BCC actively cultivate the stupid and hateful crowd.