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Originally Posted by Sommerset
Even if I grant that it's God's will, how is it not prejudicial and intolerant?
In something like the Lemon example, let's get the easier of the two out of the way first:
- Intolerant: not showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behaviour that one does not necessarily agree with.
The singular act of believing, i.e. being "against", gay adoption, so long as one does not show an unwillingness to allow the existence of it, is not exhibiting intolerant behavior. This one is pretty clearly not applicable, I think.
Now, insofar as prejudice goes:
- Prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
This one is quite a bit more tricky, and may, or may not apply given how stringently you want to define 'reason' or 'experience', but I'm willing to give someone like Lemon the benefit of the doubt given the colloquial usage of 'prejudice', especially when it usually connotates dislike or hostility, which almost certainly isn't the case here.