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Thread #115854 Message #2642325
Posted By: Amos
27-May-09 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage
A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own, and bigotry is the corresponding state of mind. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry
bigot - one who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bigot
The rigid intolerance of ideas or persons seen as different.
www.publiceye.org/glossary/glossary_big.html
intolerance toward those of different creeds or religious affiliations
gw820lodge.tripod.com/education/MDictionary.htm
bigot - A person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice; a person blindly attached to an opinion ...
www.iyfradio.com/reference.htm
The intolerance of people who are homosexual expressed in this thread has been pr"etty rigid, with respect to the civil right to marry.
MArriage:
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"
a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Marriage is a social, religious,spiritual, or legal union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage
Oddly enough none of these definitions include the sexual criterion as a critical standard in the definition.
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