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Okay, let's calm down here. You are right. Religious dogma can most certainly be bigotry. Where I'm going with this is that people who choose to boycott ChickFilA because its CEO expressed a belief in family values and traditional marriage are intolerant of his right to have religious beliefs that are not intolerant in any way.
And yet again, I have to explain that he is speaking FOR the company, not as an individual.
Do I really think you're a bigot? No. But in this particular situation, I think you have a bigoted view of this guy's right to believe in the Bible. What's that about? How tolerant is that? You become what you accuse him of being? Yes? And if he did what you propose? If he said, "Our company doesn't sell to people who are in a SSM!!" Then he would be a bigot. But he doesn't say that. At all.
And yet again, if this person's belief was limited to just himself that would be different. However, he is speaking FOR the company that the COMPANY supports those values that marriage should be between a man and a woman and the company supports those that actively fight against SSM.
That is not just an individual stating they believe something, that is someone saying their COMPANY bleieves in those values as well.
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