I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.