Does being adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage make someone a bigot?

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206. As Far as the Poll Question:

Anyone who has no interest in providing equal rights for gay people is probably a bigot. There are reasons other than bigotry for not buying into the current concept of gay marriage.

People often impute the beliefs common in their own environment to various historical times. For example, they may assume that Martin Luther King would have supported gay marriage when in fact this is unlikely. The same thing holds with the historical Jesus -- people assume he would have been been fine with gay relationships just because he was a good guy, despite the fact that this was an unthinkable position for someone of his background and society. The difference between the historical record and people's perception is what I was referring to as rewriting history.

Along the same lines, there seems to be a growing opinion that same-sex sex is either not really prohibited by the Bible or that the prohibitions are trivial. This implies people who believe otherwise are poorly informed and are driven by religious bigotry when to my knowledge these interpretations is that they are relatively new and poorly supported either by either modern textual analysis or historical commenters.

US law need not be consistent with the Bible or American ethical consensus, but the Bible and longstanding social norms bear on the question of whether to require the existing institution of marriage to be expanded to same-sex unions, and if so how to view dissenters among ministers.

Until now, the society's views of marriage were closely enough aligned with the Christian sacrament that differences in definitions were marginal. Now that is changing, and the question is whether to make the change in the civil or religious sphere. I think it is preferable to do it in the civil sphere even if that means making all marriages civil only. The current popular solution of not only changing the religious sacrament but forcing unwilling pastors to perform those ceremonies is IMO unnecessary and politically not very farsighted.