[user104658]

It's an issue that's clearly infused with a lot of anger and emotion on both sides and I think what you're experiencing is "severe backlash", which of course doesn't make it excusable but I personally believe that it always helps to remember that it's usually borne of frustration. Strangely though, the article insists that the threats are received because of "wanting debate" on this issue but then, does anyone actually "want debate"? My experience of it, including this thread, is that people are not really "open to debate" on the issue at all and what they are infact asking for is not a debate, but a platform, and debate is actively discouraged or shot down with arbitrary "gotchas".

Frustration / anger / violence is the inevitable outcome of excluding free, open and emotionally stable academic discussion of any issue.