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Old 02-18-2016, 03:48 AM
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Dear non bigoted guest
You are full of bluster and certainty. I request, no I insist that if you are going to continue to make statements of fact that you support them with evidence.
Start with something simple. Find me a single shred of evidence that anyone in any level of government has threatened the tax exempt status of any church over gay marriage. I do not accept a statement that someone on the right is afraid it might happen, but I want to see a real statement from a real personal doing exactly what you said has happened, because I know you are wrong.
Here is the link to Family research council which is a far right wing organization actively anti-gay marriage and even their website says you are WRONG
Family Research Council
and here is the exact wording from the court on how it impacts churches

Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.


Lastly as to your insistence that because you tolerate gay people you are not a bigot, I suppose that if you tolerate Negroes that does not make you a racist and if you "tolerate" Jews you are not an anti-Semite. And your risible assertion that "science" condemns homosexuality... You know nothing about science as science absolutely shows that homosexuality is a normal part of most mammalian species, and science never condemns anything, it presents evidence, posits theories, and seeks to understand the world in which we live, but it never condemns behavior.
Use the term "bigot" any way you wish. By definition, a bigot denotes intolerance. You don't have to agree with the definition, but that fact remains, just like you feel that the supreme court decision makes gay marriage legal. The court made it legal, not right, not normal, just legal. Saying someone is a racist because one believes that homosexuality is wrong, is ludicrous. And please don't try to use science as an argument to justify gay behavior. You will lose. You can use "love" as an argument, but not science.

Anti-Gay Marriage Churches Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status | The Daily Caller

Churches could lose their tax-exempt status with the IRS if they refuse to recognize the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned in his dissenting opinion.