My position on this sort of thing now is - you're allowed to think as you like, but I don't want my life polluted by prejudices. No sneers, no jokes, no epithets and I'd better never hear you acted on it in any destructive way. My friends will come here just as yours do and you will be courteous and hospitable just as I am with some of your yahoos.

It works like that or it doesn't work for me at all. Your call.

People nowadays even want to be upset over how another person views what is right and wrong

I am sure that the popular idea that so long as it affect nobody, let them be applies heavily here unless one doesn't stand with that concept

Can't he not have a different option

It would bother me.

Do a background check on him just to see if he might be secretly gay. I would want to know where all this disapproval came from.

I have a very annoying friend who is homophobic, but it doesn't impact me because I already know he is annoying and embarrassing.

The ex was homophobic, and so worried that his manhood would be questioned that he refused to go to the Transvestite shows in Provincetown with me...yet he was fascinated by Jean Claude Van Damme and prison movies. 😵

No, homophobes should not be tolerated

yes because they are ignorant and they could possibly embarrass you.