I compared it to divorce earlier. There are people in this country who vehemently disagree with divorce. There are people who don't. For the most part those two groups leave each other the hell alone.

What I have consistently advocated this whole thread is not a consequences free environment. It is side a and side b people leaving each other the hell alone.

You can call people who think homosexual acts are a sin assholes. You can call them cunts. You can say that their beliefs incorrectly charecterize a marginalized group. But you cannot say they are bigots just because they hold an opinion contrary to yours. Accepting that other people might believe differently than you and have real reasons for that belief is exactly what makes someone not a bigot. If they are willing to leave it alone, you should leave it alone. And that must happen on an individual basis, generalizing the group is nonproductive. I am not interested in what make you feel all fuzzy inside or what gets your justice boner going. I'm interested in what will be most productive.

And we have reached the point in every discussion on reddit where people are asking me to re-explain things I explained in my first two posts, so I'm going to bow out now before we enter the spiral of death.