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EPR-radar posted...

There's a basic fallacy here. An anti-gay bigot is not entitled to inflict their views on other people no matter how they do on their own purity test. It's entertaining as hell in the 99.999+% of the time that they fail their purity test, but some bigot who actually passes the purity test is still just a bigot, and still doesn't get to tell me how to live.

Exactly.

A lot of people let this binary "both sides" thinking infect their reasoning ability, or they find it a useful tool to derail and evade sincere discussion.

Even if we remove all religious based laws, it's not like there aren't layers of laws and regulations that have nothing to do with religion that I don't like, or might find inconvenient, or even harmful to society. By the same token, despite not getting the morality directly from an ancient book, there's a ton of non-religious based laws that a religious person might like and want to keep in place. There's even some we'll be in total agreement over, and some we'll agree over for different reasons.