Hate the sin but love the person...except when voting?

Yes, it's like burning heretics in that respect. If you burn them quickly after they repent under torture, then not only do you ensure that they go straight to heaven, but you also turn away the wrath of God which would doubtless otherwise fall on a heretical nation. Plus it creates jobs for honest woodcutters.Anyone who imputes malice to it obviously needs to be set on fire a bit themselves, that'll teach 'em.

Would you not? And yet you will make the following accusations against ringo: So, you say that if someone tried to meddle in your private life so as to actually dissolve your marriage, you wouldn't accuse them of hating you. But if someone urges you not to so meddle in the private lives of others you will accuse him (and, for some reason, all his friends) of "thinking from a foundation of hate".How odd.For myself, I would take it more unkindly if someone tried to forcibly divorce me and my wife against our will than if they made a post on an internet forum urging me to keep my nose out of other people's private lives. But it seems that you see more hatred in the suggestion that you shouldn't interfere in the love lives of gay people than you would in a compulsion to dissolve your marriage.Obviously the two of us have very different priorities. My marriage is more important to me than making gay people unhappy; but I guess it would be a strange world if we were all the same.

I wasn't aware that you were working to prevent the propagation of all kinds of sin in society. Could you tell us more about your campaign to re-introduce the death penalty for adulterers, disobedient children, and people who work on Saturdays? I think you'll find that there's a lot more of that going on than gay marriage, and it's important to have a sense of priorities.Of course, if your priority was being mean to gay people rather than extirpating sin, then concentrating on them would make perfect sense. But (as you have explained) you are a crusader against all kinds of sin, and so perhaps you should start with the more common and more flagrant violations of the actual Ten Commandments and then move on to gay marriage when you're done with that.