Politics is not religious beliefs; talking about guns is not the same as talking about religious beliefs.
Dan, you're not interested in having your questions "answered"; besides, they've been addressed ad infinitum on this forum.
You've looked down your nose at Catholics as long as I've been on this forum, so I guess I should just expect you're not going to change.
Next time, I'll ignore you when you're talking about Catholicism, OK? We can debate or agree on anything else, but I'm not going to tolerate allowing you or anyone else calling my faith "absurd."
You haven't answered any of my questions, still, BTW -- unless you're saying that you can disagree about politics without being a hateful bigot, but you cannot do so about religion. Which makes absolutely no sense.
Dan