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Originally Posted by rubecube
Not really. That's just bigotry masked by "faith." The fact is, if your religion is telling you to be intolerant, then your religion is bigoted too.
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That is your opinion.
The opinion of a person with strongly held religious beliefs is that you are wrong; that their religion teaches them that homosexuality is a mortal sin that threatens one's eternal soul. Their religion also teaches them that it is their duty to help sinners be saved.
By writing "faith", you are belittling someones most important personally held beliefs. By using the words intolerant and bigoted to describe those beliefs compounds the insult. This is not the level of discourse of someone whose mind is open and accepting of the beliefs of others.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
Bigot (n)
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices;
especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
People on both sides of this debate fall into that definition.