When you declare "every" Christian Conservative a "bigot", are you not guilty of "bigotry". How ironic...

I mean the definition of bigotry is...

attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a people on the basis of their membership of a particular group

Regarding Butker, his message was a reflection of his beliefs, and they were directed at people that share his beliefs. He was sharing with his fellow Catholics that the beliefs of the Catholic church work. He was not advocating bringing back the Inquisition.

So, you have now called conservative Catholic women... misogynists... You have called black conservative Catholics racists, and you have declared gay conservative Catholics homophobic. That is the problem with bigotry, projected on a group, its members seldom conform to the picture painted.

If you think of yourself as open-minded, then be open-minded.

You show an amazing level of intolerance in your piece, while condemning conservative Catholics of bigotry. You be "you", let Catholics be Catholics, their values are not better or worse than yours... just different.

All individuals have the same right to their values and opinions as you do, yours are not superior, just different.

You and Catholics cross the line when you try to cancel, censor, impose your opinions or violate the rights of others for any reason, except:

1) to protect someone's individual rights from encroachment. You have a right to smoke, but not force me to inhale secondhand smoke as an example.

2) as a product of societal compromise when conflicting rights are irreconcilable. Abortion involves the human rights of an unborn baby and privacy rights of a woman, these rights are unreconcilable and so society must determine a compromise through our legislative process.

As an aside, these opinions are not mine, but they are the core beliefs of our societal contract encapsulated in the founding documents of our nation.