Hoisting someone up to get humiliated on national TV is giving them equal credence? It's impossible to give equal credence to Flat-Earth equivalents, except by engineering things so that they get to talk about their "persecution" without saying anything about what they believe. (That is a common trick, watch out for it and you'll see it in many fringe subcultures.) Get them talking about their beliefs on a concrete level and the credence goes out the window. Putting its head on a stake where everyone can see it will do nothing to assist it.
