Good points Baggydave, however I did get the impression that the original genuine intention of this discussion was largely about how to prevent faith groups doing a spot of direct selling. However there is a fine line to be drawn between not welcoming direct approaches by religious groups and religious bigotry itself and comments on a thread such as this can easily be misread , misunderstood, or simply hijacked for particular anti this and that speeches. The focus on JWs and the title of this thread was also a little unfortunate given the particular 20th century history of persecution of this group.
Perhaps this thread needs to be renamed and refocussed if people want to take further an enlightened discussion on religion, or even the right to make comments on religion. Or as you say, given the propensity for anything on line to come across differently than perhaps was meant, best to avoid the subject completely.