OK, be that way (wry smile). I mean, you can quibble about "hate" and not answer the issue if you want to, but that is specious, I think the word is.

Let's rephrase:

Person A believes homosexuality is a sin and a bad thing. (I'm not going to go into how awful it is that Christianity makes *everybody* into a sinner. Let's pretend this person isn't Christian necessarily, thinks well of other people, but not of gays because their god(s) say(s) it's a bad thing.) Meanwhile, Person B believes homosexuality is gross and a bad thing.

Same issue (repeating from above): 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.

Would you say that both A and B are intolerable and unrespectable bigots? Or, would you claim that because Person A's negative view of homosexuality is faith-based, it should be respected, and they are immune from being bigots on the issue of homosexuality - while at the same time agreeing that Person B is bigoted against gays?