I'm going to take a stab and guess that for one thing, this site isn't a debate site, as much as it is a fellowship site. Obviously debates happen, but the tone of the site seems to try to minimize debate, so creating a forum on politics would be sure to be pure debate. And i can see it easily becoming out of control with people fighting. I mean look at the Bible forum, people can't even behave themselves talking about the bible, they sure aren't going to behave on politics. Personally all i can see is the mods doubling their workload by the one new forum.