"Some of my best friends are black" is such a typical excuse from bigots that it's become a popular satirical stereotype. Are you going to be treating us to mor

"Some of my best friends are black" is such a typical excuse from bigots that it's become a popular satirical stereotype. Are you going to be treating us to more typical bigot behavior while insisting others are the bigots? If your best friend has any self-esteem, he won't let you get away with spouting that demeaning garbage about homosexuality being a choice. So why are you subjecting me to it? You seem to have trouble with this, so I'll explain it: the color of skin a person is born with is not his fault, and contrary to what you falsely believe in, which sex a person is attracted to isn't either. But the set of values a person makes his own is subject to parental and societal education - it's nothing but ideas, and both societies and individuals can and do learn to walk away from bad ideas and toward better ones. You would like to see your religious ideas exempt from this process, for no reason other than reluctance to let go of the privilege religion has unfairly enjoyed for far too long. To which I say, "tough" - you might as well get used to it, because equality and reason aren't going to suffer your hissy fits for very much longer.