ISIS killing Christians who don't accept forced conversion to Islam is persecution. Telling a man he should accept gay civil marriage is not.

I'm not sorry that your and his bigotry is deemed unacceptable. Did you weep when the Supreme Court struck down racial anti-miscegenation laws? Were you aghast went apartheid no longer existed in South Africa? Do you yearn for the reinstatement of the Nuremburg Laws? Or is it only one form of bigotry that you support?