No Joe,

It isn't what you believe that makes a bigot. It's what you do with that belief.

If you set yourself up as the arbiter of what is right or wrong, and you choose to discriminate, or incite others to discriminate against a group, simply because YOU disapprove of some aspect of their behaviour, THEN you become a bigot.

A man who believes that your lifestyle is wrong, but accepts that you have a different opinion, and adopts a "live and let live" attitude, cannot be described as bigotted.

GfS rants on, in the face of overwhelming medical and psychological to the contrary, about homosexuality being a lifestyle option, and "curable". I find his views abhorrent. Ake is somewhat more balanced, and I merely disagree with his position.

NEVERTHELESS, both are entitled to hold those views, and I am entitled to find them distasteful, without THAT simple fact making any of us bigots. Acting on the basis of those views, to disadvantage a person or group does make a bigot (IN MY OPINION, of course).

Don T.