"Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham

[RoadRunner79]

There is nothing wrong with criticism, and I never said otherwise.  This is about being able to have an honest and civil discussion.  I’m not going to keep fighting against what is only in your imagination, and whatever polemic you ty an twist to gain rhetorical advantage.

Let me put it this way.

Suppose someone claimed that inter-racial marriage isn't a real marriage and that real marriage is limited to those of the same race. Suppose that they point to the historical separation of the races as justified both societally and by religion.

Would you not say this person is a bigot?

The situation with gay marriage is *exactly* the same.

I seems that you are taking any hatred and/or intolerance out of the equation. In which case, I would say that it doesn’t fit the definition of bigotry then. However, I think that most, who where against interracial marriage; also often had some other views about race which may qualify.

To still call it bigotry, I think is moving away from the original definition, in which you can’t then equivocate, back to the condemnation of the previous definition.