Bullshit. His shtik was to “debate” hapless kids who weren’t really old enough or well informed enough to know how to debate. Like shooting fish in a barrel. There was no “conversation”. He was smugly condescending.Please, it was all he did. He had opinions, yes. You and others disagreed with them, yes. He would give you a microphone and hold a conversation with you. Sometimes they left in disagreement, but there was a conversation. Sometimes the folks got up to the mic and just said nasty garbage, he would let them and they would leave. I didn't even see him get angry at those folks. He'd say something like, "Okay. You just spent all day waiting in line for that." and then "Next question."
His intolerant religious beliefs denigrated gays, trans, blacks, immigrants, Muslims. And his hateful rhetoric got him killed.