St. wrote:

Steve you echo a lot of my own anger.

I was trying to find a way to rise above this dispute.  But I guess not.

So I'll say this. I thought that fact that one of the judges would 
repeatedly use the comments section as a soapbox for this ridiculous 
bias of his was in extremely poor form.  I was more than a little 
shocked that such bias was represented on the judging panel at all, and 
even more so that these petty-minded opinions were allowed to see the 
light of day.  For me it is extremely disheartening, not in the least 
because I enjoy "pure" csg extremely, and now actually find it hard to 
use because this "issue" has been so stupidly politicized.  These 
comments are, in my opinion, low-minded, retrograd, and do not reflect 
the spirit of POV-Ray.