*EDITED*If you are showering unqualified praise and admiration onto an openly bigoted person....

[Hippo_Tron]

94. Eqfan, I think there's maybe a better way to go about this discussion...

We throw around the term bigot a lot as though there's one group of people "the bigots" who have deep seeded hatred for someone (blacks, gays, women, etc.) and the non-bigots who don't. It's true that there's certainly a group of blatantly hateful bigoted people, one only needs to go over to somewhere like Freerepublic to find them. There's also the vast majority of the rest of us who fundamentally believe that all human beings are created equal, but being human beings we still sometimes will act in a bigoted manner often without even realizing it.

So if statements like "I love the new pope" offend you, then I would politely go about explaining to the person making that statement why it offends you and ask them to re-consider their unqualified admiration for the pope. Speak up about how you feel, just don't assume the worst in people when doing it.