Reply #13: Bigotry comes from ignorance

[Sebastian Doyle]

Ignorance is not interchangeable with stupidity, though most stupid people are ignorant. Ignorance means that you simply don't know any different. And since the subject of bigotry is in the context of Rick Warren's homophobia in this case (or the Phelps KKKult's) then many of the homophobes are ignorant because they don't know any gay people (or at least they don't THINK they do) as human beings, so they have no actual reality to refute the bullshit stereotypes they hear in their right wing churches or KKK meetings or whatever. Same can be said of backwood Appalachian hicks who have never met a black person, believing racial stereotypes, or about any other form of ignorance, for that matter.