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> religious populations nearly uniformly opposed to your position

There's a lot to unpack here, and I disagree with more than this one part of your comment, but I want to be absolutely clear on this. Catholics are not "nearly uniformly opposed" to SSM. As of 2012, a slim majority (around 52%) of American Catholics support SSM (Pew Research poll). The pope does not speak for all, or even most Catholics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholi...

You probably wouldn't object to calling a racist person a bigot. It is my opinion that just because there are more (open, visible) homophobes than (open, visible) racists doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to call it what it is. Would it have been inappropriate in 1978, the year that the Mormon church finally rescinded their policy of not allowing black people to be ordained, to call Mormon racists out as bigots? I feel that it would not.