I don't think the staff have come to a conclusion yet, but I"ll put my

in.
The idea of a Christian only debate forum at first to me sounded like a good idea. Just like Christian Talk & Advice, but with debates allowed. Then as I thought about it more and discussed it with some of the other staff I"m starting to think that it probably won't work or won't be such a good idea in practice.
It seems the idea is to have the proposed forum like Apologetics & Theology, but exclusivly for Christians. There is so much argument, disagreement and disrespect in that forum already and now a proposal is put forth to add another one? Almost all my moderating duties in these types of forums has been between two or more believers. Note: not non-believers. It's the clash of different interpretations of the Bible and denominations and weird theology that gives this effect. From my observations, most of the people drawn to this type of forum are believers, with a few non-believers in there as well.
My point: I just don't see that an exclusive Christian debate forum will improve things, just due to the nature of 'debate'. The Christian Talk & Advice forum works becasue it is NOT a debate forum. BTW it is governed by the Statement of Faith.
A&T takes a lot of moderation weight, and we are light on active staff at the moment as it is. This new forum would greatly increase the workload of the staff. This is not our day job. We don't get paid for it.
Just putting forward my ideas.