Papa bull
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Reading in context and understanding is the key here and you are not even close to the pier, thus missing the boat. Let me help you with that.
While it is true that people who do not like other or some ideas they can be called bigots also, the term is hardly if ever used for that purpose. The real meaning is the first part of the definition which clearly you are attempting to deflect from. The real meaning, the first one in every definition is about persons who are unfairly intolerant of others. Are you ashamed of being intolerant and wishing to deny others what you can enjoy?
Marriage is the union of one of each sex. It's not about intolerance. It's not about bigotry. It's not about hating homosexuals. It's not about denying anyone rights or being "exclusionary". It's about marriage being the union of one man and one woman. Whether they're straight or homosexual is irrelevant. I can understand why homosexuals wouldn't think marriage was for them. What I don't understand is why they think that society must be required to change the very nature of marriage must be rearranged in order to make allowances for their unorthodox sexual preferences. Marriage will change as our society changes and our social views of marriage change and as states decide for themselves whether or not they want to promote and sanction homosexual unions.
The fact that some of you cannot tolerate a view that traditional marriage, which has served mankind very well for thousands of years, should be redefined all of a sudden to incorporate two new "alternative lifestyle" models is "bigotry".