I was listening to Utah's "family values" radio station the other day when the question was raised "Does being against gay marriage make you a bigot?"
The answer is "yes."
The American Heritage Dictionary defines bigot as "one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race or politics and is intolerant to those who differ." It also defines intolerant as "opposed to the inclusion or participation of those different from oneself." The proponents of Amendment 3 overemphasize the difference between straights and gays and then use that difference to justify excluding me as a gay man not only from marriage but from any legal benefits as a couple. That, by definition, makes anyone who supports Amendment 3 a bigot.
William Jay Carlson
Salt Lake City