I'm not sure if it was your suggestion or not, but someone suggested if it is truly offensive, ignoring him could be effective.
Certainly it would be effective - but if I ignored
everyone like Tal, I would miss out on the occasional interesting conversation.
Even those like Tal deserve to have their opinions voiced, and their arguments shown.
After all, it's
fun to prove him (and others) wrong.
The only time I take offense is when a poster's argument is misrepresented - it's dishonest. Tal is doing more than that - he's twisting the evidence I provided and essentially claiming that I proposed his bigotted, ludicrous "gay-gene cattle prod" idea. I take offense at being associated with that sort of mental drivel, and I assume any other poster would be similarly agitated were he to do something similar to their posts.
Every time a fundy breaks the laws of thermodynamics, Schroedinger probably kills his cat.