I know you don't get it about The UK Joe.

after all, in The USA, you've never had people who challenge bigotry have you?

I suggest you read up on Martin Luther King, he had that small minded UK attitude too... I wonder where he came from? I will take lectures on the USA verses UK the day The USA stops killing its prisoners, torturing terror suspects and putting the rights of small pricks with big guns over the lives of those they kill.

Homophobes and bigots do have the right to their view. Horrible as they are , they are views. I have the right to challenge small minded views too. I used to inspect prisons and mental health hospitals, including the forensic end of the market, I am used to hearing views and weighing them against society's expectation.   No. I don't accept them as valid views, and neither does society at large. Why? Because they are views that are detrimental to others. They single out whole sections of society and state how they shouldn't have rights, that their choice of wife or husband is perverted.

And I shall carry on pointing out that there are people who like folk music who may wish to come to this website and yet it needs a warning that if you are gay you may be offended because the moderators can't tell the difference between free speech and words that set out to cause inequality and harm.

Reminds me a bit of "Fuck 'em, they're only Jews."

And what's more, I refuse point blank to accept that anybody could side with people who don't see fellow humans as equal.

You should become religious Joe. They keep harping on about all equal under God or some such waffle.

You might learn humility.