OK, let me ask y'all this:

Let's say person A hates gays because they think that homosexuality is a sin. Let's say person B hates gays because they think that homosexuality is disgusting.

It appears to me, from the tone of both this and the God Is thread, as if one has to respect person A's bigotry but not person B's, since A is exercising their religious freedom, and B is just prejudiced.

First, is that y'all's understanding? I'm asking both theists and atheists who are posting here.

If so, am I the only one to find that distinction frightening? I believe that both A and B are intolerable and unrespectable bigots, and that just because one person's opinion is faith-based does NOT protect them from that negative opinion of them.

I think that is the best illustration of why I don't respect "blind" faith that I've come up with yet, actually.