IF YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF "gay marriage", DOES THAT MAKE YOU A BIGOT, HATER AND A HETEROPHOBE???

Nope. Haters exist on every side of every issue.

Your premise that people "hate" because of their beliefs is a false one.

People "hate" because they have been taught to "hate". There is a progression to achieve that status.

It starts with basic prejudice, which is a LEARNED response from environmental social interaction with family, friends, workmates, religious associates etc, where in we absorb their likes and dislikes etc starting out as children.

Those LEARNED responses to the interactions graduate to "bigotry" when reinforced over time.

Once "bigotry" is fully ingrained the response to opposing points of view are immediate and irrevocable in the form of outrage and translate into "hatred" towards what ever it is that has offended you as a person with all the baggage one has attached to your personage.

The conditioned responses for those who do NOT support same sex "civil contracts of civil marriage" arise from extensive learned response behavior modification.

The conditioned responses of those who DO support same sex "civil contracts of civil marriage" arise from extensive education as to the real makeup of the human beings very broad range of physiological and psychological variability of human interactions.

So in each case it is a 'learned' response to external stimulus which creates the responses. The depth of the response is directly proportional to the depth of the learned material.

No, I just think that we should all have the opportunity to marry the person we love.

I can honestly say that there is no one that I have ever hated. I have hated their action.

No, it simply means that you favor equal rights for all.

Ridiculous.

No. I stand for gay marriage. If I was a heterophobe I would be scared of myself.

I think people need to stop and give serious though to what is happening in this world today. What is going on in it compared to many years ago. Is all of this good for now and the future? No we are dooming things for future generations if this type controversy continues and I don't see it stopping.

You probably don't like filling trash cans with babies either... You woman hater !

HARSH! But true!

It makes you "Daffy"

We're living in Daffy times.

This honestly doesn't seem to make sense.
You see, if you stand up for a certain type of marriage and reject the other, then you're not supporting equality. By not supporting equality, you're basically saying that one party is better than the other, technically hating.
If you stand up for gay marriage you're supporting and promoting equality. Of course, if you support gay marriage but disapprove of heterosexual marriage then you're not supporting equality, which leads to what I said above.
You're not branded a hater if you eat a chicken sandwich and waffle fries. You're branded a hater if you fully support and agree with what the dude in Chick-a-Fil-A said.

...then call me a hater because I "fully support and agree with what the dude in Chick-a-Fil-A said"....

This IS what he said:

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.

"We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.

"We intend to stay the course," he said. "We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles."
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If you think that's hate...you really have issues...

I never said I considered it hate. I just said that you were branded a hater if you fully supported and agreed with what he said. You asked a general question, I answered. BUT I never, not once, mentioned that I, personally, said it was hate or that I considered people haters, among such.

okay...

As a child I was taught that gay meant happy? So why is homosexuality equated with gay true meaning happy when so many seem ballistic and miserably angry?

I don't care what they call me. I'm supporting Gay-Marriage.

I have no problem with gays and relationships. Just call it something other than marriage. Civil relationship. They are looking for legalities and that is all. When partner is say,... dying they want to be included. Love for another human being is substantial loss no matter what your preference. It is not marriage and leave that alone.

I agree.

Most gays I meat make fun of straights.

Just as "straights" make fun of gays...
Really, it's from both parties.

The left is so full of hate that they assume that everyone who disagrees with them are full of hate also. They don't understand the concept of being able to have differing views without having hate in your heart for that person.

I suggest that they examine their own hearts first. I hate no one, not even my gay ex-husband!

Never seen a group more hateful than gay rights supporters.

How is supporting marriage Equality make you a Bigot?? That does not make any logical sense

Does certainly feel like its becoming one of those thrown out terms now. "Bigot", "ignorant", "stupid". Changes shape like a virus.

Gay-hating bigots aren't logical.

it totally means they are haters... lol
nah, but nice way to make a point :-)

hetrophobia , and its cousin hetero-hatred, are the loud mouthed and disgusting voices most commonly heard in the debate ... hypocracy abounds in the "militant" wing of leftism

The loudest and obnoxious voice it always heard. Why do you think all Conservative Christians get labeled as homophobic?

Great choice

Not in the real world where common sense is still hanging on by its fingernails.

This statement doesn't work in the reverse. It is bigoted to DENY someone marriage based on sexuality. All marriage between two consenting and non-related adults should be and will be LEGAL. Just wait for it- it's coming. All humans deserve the opportunity to get married and the benefits that coincide with it.

for religious reasons I don't support it... however I do agree that same-sex marriage will be legal very soon. I will get blasted for this, but it will happen either way... the next group wanting to be married will be those who have fallen in love with someone in their own family.

You had the most honest argument opposing same-sex marriage. You don't support same-sex marriage because of religious beliefs. Stop there. You ruin it with that nonsense about people wanting to marry relatives or animals.

it was not too long ago it was a news about such a thing actually happening, that's why I mention it. And not too long ago I had this same discussion with someone actually in this situation. Believe me, it was an odd conversation for me. My main argument was about birth defects and whatnot, to which I was heavily reminded people have sex outside of marriage, marriage is just union. Next came the statistics with birth defects among women who smoke or drink or don't eat properly and then more statistics in comparison to a child of incest. And finally came the argument of women having the right over their own bodies.

I was taken aback by all of this. We are all used to debating certain subjects, but this one was a new one for me. So yeah, it definitely exist. It's definitely a possibility. incest is very taboo.... so was homosexuality years and years and years ago.

The first problem with that argument is the assumption homosexuality, incest, and bestiality are equally bad or equally good.
The second problem is the assumption there is a legal reason to ban same-sex marriage as there is with the other two examples. (not moral but legal)
The third problem is one of simple logic. Using very extreme examples to support any argument means it is a weak argument to begin with.