Quote: exiledrhino "So aggressively calling a gay person a homophobic term in a heated exchange is not as bad as a person holding old fashioned religious beliefs believed by millions world wide?'"
In my opinion it depends what you do with those views.
If someone called me something derogatory, then apologised and made efforts to atone, I would view that more 'favourably' than someone who repeatedly spouted hate to hundreds of thousands of people against a particularly part of the community whatever reason you are hating them for.
I quite possibly deal with people on a daily basis who hold views on whatever that don't fit with my own view of the world, but unless they share those views with me, I am non the wiser.
To be absolutely clear, neither are acceptable in my view.