One thing I have known for a long time was just reaffirmed. It's OK to condemn someone....

[caseymoz]

18. A little farther than cussing.

She got killed in response to using her magazine to chase a personal vendetta because she convinced herself she could say whatever she wanted, however way she wanted, no matter who she offended -- and that was, somehow, moral. It turned her very bitter, in which case her judgment and turn of phrase became even worse with time. You can be as obtuse as you want about that lesson, saying that, well, cussing wasn't the only thing involved. Yeah, right. It's still not wise to draw neutral fire, no matter how you do it. It's not smart to get your post taken down for using words that have no meaning and do nothing for your message except color in its emotional tone.

I happen to be contemporary with O'Hair, and talked to her grand daughter, Robin, months before they and Jon were kidnapped and murdered. So, I remember reading the very issue, the very article, that sewed the vendetta. So, of course, I remember her. But secularists of coming generations won't. Secularism, and atheism in particular, stagnated under her influence.