No Keith. If you hold a bigoted view you are a bigot. Silly. If you oppose the rights of others then you are a bigot. If your church or mosque teaches you to be a bigot then you either hold bigoted views or you aren't a sheep after all.

I notice that some of the comments by the Scotland Musket have been deleted yet many hatred inspired comments remain. I use Mudcat for the music bits really and when talking to people in the folk world mention the music resource but warn them that if they want to see true nasty people still walking this earth, look at the BS section, but be grateful the Keith's and Akenatons of this world don't have the courage of their conviction to spout off in such awful ways when you meet them. (No idea about Akenaton but I have met Keith and he definitely doesn't appear the swivel eyed bigot he comes over as on these threads. To be fair, it was a quick intro and apart from him singing a bit flat, I didn't take too much notice of him the rest of the night. No criticism there by the way. I can't sing either, although Musket Original is a cracking singer.)

Anyway. Everybody is allowed the same rights as everybody else in yet another country. Bigots and their apologists ("I support gay marriage but accept others don't," in case you wondered what the apologists are, yes, looking at you Keith) are marginalised and bigotry dies a shameful death. Result.

I must be a bigot because I am proud of my father's generation who destroyed Hitler and his "different views". zzzz